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. 16 shown for “Sword Guard in the Form of Confronted Dragons” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 19:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sword Guard in the Form of Confronted Dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–early 15th century
Design for a Sword Hilt
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · ca. 1750
Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)
Ahmed Tekelü · ca. 1525–30
Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800
Sword with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · Grip and guard, late 17th century; blade, 17th century
Band
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Aquamanile in the Form of a Crowned Centaur Fighting a Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1225
The Lion Strangler
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-12th century
Confronted Animal Rug
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Hand-and-a-Half Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1430
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527
Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century
Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 17156
Smith & Wesson · 1881–1902
Saint Michael and the Dragon
Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?) · ca. 1405
Aquamanile in the Form of a Mounted Knight
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250
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. 223 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. 7484740 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 19:05 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.