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. 23 shown for “Scarab Ring” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:02 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scarab Ring of Ruiu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE
Ring
Unidentified · 1800-1900
Scarab Ring of Neferkhawet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE
Purse with Egyptian ornament
Sloan & Company · ca. 1880
Scarab Ring of Ruiu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE
Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record
Scarab Ring of Ruiu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE
Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1967
Scarab Finger Ring of Neferkhawet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE
Tumble Bug, Scarab Beetle, Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1937
Scarab ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1450 BCE
Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record
Scarab ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1700 B.C.
Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1914
Scarab ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Rainbow Scarab
Artist not stated in the record
Scarab Ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1775 B.C.
Rainbow Scarab
Artist not stated in the record
Scarab Ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1500 BCE
Dynastes grantii
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1978
Scarab Finger Ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.
Dung Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1914
Scarab Finger Ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 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. 164 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. 9316 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:02 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.