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 “Openwork furniture plaque with head of a sphinx” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Crib of the Infant Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Designs for Three Pedestals
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80
Openwork furniture plaque with head of a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
Cabinet
Jean Brandely · 1867
Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement
David Roentgen · ca. 1785–90
Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE
Voodoo Guitar "Marie" made by Don Moser with debris from Hurricane Katrina
Don Moser, American · 2005
Astronomical table clock
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 17th century
Ersten Ausgab seines vorhabenden Wercks
Johann August Corvinus, German, 1683–1738 · 1728–31
Glass plaque with sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE
Étagère
Julius Dessoir, active NY, 1842 - 1865 · ca. 1855
Coin cabinet
Charles Percier · ca. 1809–19
Table with Sphinx Base
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790
Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes
Artist not stated in the record · dated 612 AH/1215–16 CE
Design for a Console Table with Sphinx Base
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795
Table or bracket clock with calendar
Daniel Delander · probably ca. 1720
Tureen with Sphinx-Head Handles
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1810
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. 303 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3898146 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 06:57 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.