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. 16 shown for “Ritual vessel (huo)” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Aduno Koro (Ark of the World) vessel with ancestral figures
Dogon blacksmith · 16th–19th century
Ritual vessel (huo) in the form of a bird
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE
Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE
Ritual vessel (huo) with bird stopper
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE
Bird-shaped vessel
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century
Ritual vessel (huo)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE
Ritual Wine Vessel (Jue)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE
Ritual wine vesssel (hu) with bird-shaped cover
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE
Ritual Wine Vessel (Jiao)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE
Food serving vessel (dui)
Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE
Vessel with ritual scene
Recuay artist(s) · 200–700 CE
Spouted Ritual Water Vessel (He)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE
Panpiper-shaped vessel
Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE
Ritual Altar Set
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE
Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE
Ritual Ladle (Dou)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE
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. 771 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 167176 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 07:57 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.