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. 12 shown for “Seal ring: horned animals flanking a tree” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Seal ring: horned animals flanking a tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th–8th century BCE
Textile with Birds and Horned Quadrupeds Flanking a Tree of Life
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century
Seal Ring with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century
Seal ring: bird above a horned animal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th–8th century BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: mistress of animals flanked by rampant horned animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: creature flanking stylized tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 11th–9th century BCE
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
Seal ring and modern impression: two sphinxes flanking a tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th century BCE
Terracotta oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: kneeling archer and goats flanking tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca.10th century BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: demons and animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BC
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th 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. 60 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:30 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.