OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Head of a Sphinx” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of a Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1878 B.C.
Head of a sphinx (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century
Head and Shoulders of a Sphinx of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Collage of photographs of the Alpha Phi Alpha "Sphinx Club" fraternity
Addison N. Scurlock, American, 1883 - 1964 · 1923
Head
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century
Two Candelabra Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788
Senwosret III as a Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.
Two Candelabra Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788
Sphinx of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
A Sphinx with Globe
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE
Tureen with Sphinx-Head Handles
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1810
Head of a sphinx, possibly of Amenemhat I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.
Pair of Scissors with Sphinx-shaped Handles
Artist not stated in the record · probably 17th century
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
A Recumbent Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century
Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE
Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques
Unknown · early 16th century
Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century, with expert later repairs
Design for Cartouche with Cupid, a Horse and Spears from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 18th century
Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century
Design for two andirons
Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825
Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century
Grotesque for an Oblong Panel
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 31252 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3871670 matched · 40 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 03:29 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.