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 “Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 15:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Six of the Twelve Divine Generals (Jūni shinshō)
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century
Set of twelve zodiac animals
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century
Chinese musicians
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755
Flask with Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century, with additions first half 20th century
Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century
Pipa (琵琶 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
Inkwell with Zodiac Signs
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century
Ewer Base with Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · first half 13th century
Stem cup
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE
Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210
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. 930 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 15:00 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.