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. 21 shown for “Standing Hippopotamus” — 59 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Standing Hippopotamus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–1700 B.C.
Hippopotamus amphibius
Artist not stated in the record
Artist's Painting of a Hippopotamus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Hippopotamus amphibius
Artist not stated in the record
Hippopotamus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.
Hippopotamus amphibius
Artist not stated in the record
Hippopotamus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.
Hippopotamus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.
Hippopotamus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1650 B.C.
Scarab with the Name of Amenemhat III and a Hippopotamus Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1859–1749 B.C.
Hippopotamus amphibius
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1940
Taweret
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE
Hippopotamus amphibius
Artist not stated in the record
Hippopotamus figurine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1550 B.C.
Hippopotamus amphibius
Artist not stated in the record · 1967
Pendant of Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 18th century
Hippopotamus amphibius
Artist not stated in the record
Magical container in the shape of a hippo goddess
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1500 BCE
Hippopotamus amphibius
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1942
The Goddess Taweret with a Feline Head
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE
Hippopotamus amphibius
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Dec 1959
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. 19 matched · 19 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. 18058 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-26 22:59 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.