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. 9 shown for “Scarab Depicting Ramesses II Smiting a Captive Before the God Ptah” — 43 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scarab Depicting Ramesses II Smiting a Captive Before the God Ptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–18th century
Scarab Depicting Ramesses II Smiting a Prisoner Before Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Gods on a Cloud-bank
Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830
Oblong Plaque Depicting Ramesses II Smiting Enemies, opposite side relief scene of Isis and Nephthys flanking falcon labeled Horus son of Isis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Study for God Appears to Moses and his Companions, Plate 171, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731
Design for a fan: Worship of Venus by Art
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–70
Butler Medal
Anthony C. Paquet, German, 1814 - 1882 · 1865
The Spirit of Piety
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2561088 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 21:28 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.