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 “The elephant Khanderao Bahadur killing Sham Mahavat” — 40 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The elephant Khanderao Bahadur killing Sham Mahavat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Pillow sham with Tuskegee Flying School poem
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1946
Pillow sham
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Sham Fight, Mandan Boys
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832-1833
Toona sureni var. celebica (Koord.) Bahadur
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1907
Toona sureni var. celebica (Koord.) Bahadur
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1907
Syzygium albiflorum (Duthie ex Kurz) Bahadur & R.C. Gaur
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 2005
Datura metel L.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1966
The Sham Castle, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, near Cassel, Germany
Artist not stated in the record · 1796
![Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8156_03-000003.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before
Hyparrhenia filipendula (Hochr.) Stapf
Artist not stated in the record
Cenchrus thunbergii (Kunth) Morrone
Artist not stated in the record
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1185167 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-01 13:11 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.