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. 20 shown for “String of 10 Beads” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
String of 10 Beads
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE
Cobalt blue European glass trade beads
Unidentified · ca. 17th century
String of 10 Mosaic Beads
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE
Cobalt blue European glass trade beads
Unidentified · ca. 17th century
String of 10 Eye Beads
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE
Venetian glass trade beads
Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century
String of 10 beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE
Venetian glass trade beads
Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century
String of 10 Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE
Purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60
Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE
String of beads
Unidentified · 1800-1968
Helmet crest from a nja masquerade
Grassfields artists · ca. 1800–80
European glass trade beads
Unidentified · ca. 18th century
String of beads
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE
String of glass millefiori beads
Unidentified · 1800-1968
String of Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE
String of Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE
Case (Inrō) with Design of Grasshopper on Stalk of Flowering Lily
Nomura Chōkei (dates unknown) · 18th–19th century
String of 6 Beads
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE
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. 1988 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. 3160151 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 05:42 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.