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. 13 shown for “Himalayan Lute (Sgra-Snyan)” — 49 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Himalayan Lute (Sgra-Snyan)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th Century
Wedding Preparations: folio from a Nala-Damayanti series
Artist not stated in the record · 1775-1800
Sgra-Snyan
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–16th century
Lovers on a terrace with three musicians
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Sgra-Snyan
Unknown Maker · late 19th century
A Lady and attendant on a terrace at evening, with three women musicians
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Sgra-Snyan
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
A palace scene
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Mirror Handle with a Woman Playing the Lute
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century
Lovers on a terrace, with an attendant and musicians
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Sgra-Snyan
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
A prince holding an audience
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
Sketches of a Woman with a Lute, Study for "Titian Showing the Entombment to Charles V and Clement VII"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1871–72
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 907 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:22 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.