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. 20 shown for “Pole fitting” — 57 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Storage Trunk (Nagamochi) with Family Crests, Pine, and Foliage Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century
Pole fitting
Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE
Falcon head for attachment to a pole
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE
firescreen
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775
Palm Column of Sahure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE
Flag of the 9th Regiment of United States Volunteers
Unidentified · 1898-1899
Schellenbaum
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Processional cross
Ethiopian Orthodox · 14th-15th century
Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540
Draft pole heel pipe with dragons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE
Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa) · 17th century
Photographic print of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and another woman in front of car
Unidentified · 1926
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Draft pole heel pipe with mask (taotie)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE
Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480
Draft pole heel plate with mask (taotie) and dragons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE
Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540
Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 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. 7995 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 22:31 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.