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. 24 shown for “Scarab with a Representation of Maat” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:28 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 with a Representation of Maat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1080 BCE
Piper aduncum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1907
Maat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE
Vase
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1909–10
Scarab with Representation of Baal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Purse with Egyptian ornament
Sloan & Company · ca. 1880
Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE
Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910
Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century
Oncidium Copper Scarab 'Brass Brethren'
Artist not stated in the record
Scarab Inscribed with a Maat Feather
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Monocoupe 110 Special
Monocoupe Airplane Co. · 1941
Scarab Ring of Ruiu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE
Neo-Egyptian Motifs
Watrous Manufacturing Company · ca. 1900
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
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE
Tumble Bug, Scarab Beetle, Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1937
Mortar and Pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century
Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record
Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE
Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1914
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. 3842 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3880666 matched · 40 examined · 28 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:28 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.