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 “Marble sarcophagus fragment: head of a Black African” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:44 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.
Marble sarcophagus fragment: head of a Black African
Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 3rd century CE
Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration
Upper right corner of a marble sarcophagus: head of a Black African and a maenad
Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 3rd century CE
Woman from the French Colonies
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861
Marble sarcophagus fragment: head and torso of a Gaul
Artist not stated in the record · 160–180 CE
Fragmentary marble sarcophagus with scenes from the Oresteia
Artist not stated in the record · mid-2nd century CE
Top of a marble funerary relief with portrait busts of a young man and an elderly woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–141 CE
The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390
The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74
Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520
Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
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. 42 matched · 24 examined · 8 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 2026-08-27 08:44 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.