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. 8 shown for “Scarab Finger Ring Inscribed for Auserre (Apophis)” — 48 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:38 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 Finger Ring Inscribed for Auserre (Apophis)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1581–1541 B.C.
Cornet owned by Maxine Sullivan
Artist not stated in the record · 1977
Scarab Finger Ring Inscribed for Nakht
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1550 B.C.
Bouquet holder, scaly surface pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920
Scarab Finger Ring Inscribed "God's Wife Hatshepsut"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Scarab Finger Ring Inscribed for Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Scarab Finger Ring of an Official
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.
Gold Base Plate of a Scarab of an Official
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 439154 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 14:38 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.