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. 19 shown for “Sphinx Chair” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sphinx Chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795, with some later additions
Ornament Designs for a Sedan Chair
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711
Arm Panel From a Ceremonial Chair of Thutmose IV
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE
Design for a sedan chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–85
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1948
Center Table
Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · 1870–75
Armchair
Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · ca. 1870–75
Household Furniture and Interior Decoration
Thomas Hope · 1807
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--
Furniture plaque: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1931
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1900
Armchair
Karl Friedrich Schinkel · ca. 1828
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1964
Chair back carved in relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th 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. 40 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. 7330 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-31 02:07 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.