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. 12 shown for “Lidded container in the shape of a Bes-image” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Lidded container in the shape of a Bes-image
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE
Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
I N · 1675/76
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter
Lidded Vessel
Yoruba artist · 17th–18th century
Lidded saltcellar
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · ca. 1490–1530
The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces
Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750
Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE
Lidded prestige vessel
"Unobadula" · Mid–late 19th century
Bottle in the shape of a feline
Wari artist(s) · 600–900 CE
Container in the form of a Bes-image
Artist not stated in the record · 525–404 BCE
Cosmetic container decorated with a pair of Bes-images
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1400 BCE
Lidded bowl with ballgame scenes
Río Blanco artist · 500-900 CE
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. 2800 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:49 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.