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 “Limestone statue of a sphinx” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
A Sphinx with Globe
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Table with Sphinx Base
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790
Pair of Scissors with Sphinx-shaped Handles
Artist not stated in the record · probably 17th century
Design for a Console Table with Sphinx Base
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795
Design for Medallion Portrait of Mauro Tesi, Surrounded by Architectural Ornaments, Frontispiece to the "Raccolta Di Disegni Originali Di Mauro Tesi..."
Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini, Italian, 1739 - 1821 · 1787
Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques
Unknown · early 16th century
Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Sphinxes and an Owl
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · ca. 1779–84
A Recumbent Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century
Tureen with Sphinx-Head Handles
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1810
Map sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century
Mount
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3942272 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 12:51 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.