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. 23 shown for “Tomb guardian beast” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:46 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tomb guardian beast (Zhenmushou)
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century
Funerary tile
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE-100 CE
Tomb Guardian Beast
Artist not stated in the record
Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Tomb guardian beast
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century
Dado
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30
Tomb guardian beast
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century
Selaginella hansenii Hieron.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2009
Tomb guardian beast (zhenmushou)
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century
Classical Exterior Scene with Beasts
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850
Tomb guardian beast (Zhenmushou)
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–8th century
Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868
Guardian Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.
Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · possibly late 17th century
Tomb guardian
Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century
The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 25-27, 1868
Tomb Guardian (Zhenmushou)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-to-late 6th century
Guardian Fire and Marine Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1867
Tomb guardian beasts with dog
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century
An Angel Hammering a Chisel into a Burning Beast
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Guardian Lion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century
Selaginella wallacei Hieron.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2009
Tomb guardian in form of a civil official
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 116 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1614 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:46 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.