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. 11 shown for “Unidentified scribe” — 11 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:36 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.
Transcription of a Letter from Zekkai Chūshin to Shippei Shikai
Unidentified scribe · after 1380
Samyutagama Sutra, chapter 25, from the Jinsushan Tripitaka
Unidentified artist · datable to 1060s–1080s
Nigatsudō Burned Sutra
Unidentified artist · ca. 744
Rubbing of Stele for Shi Chen
Unidentified artist · 19th century rubbing; stele dated 169 CE
Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Cosimo Rosselli · early 1480s
Illustrated Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · dated 815 AH/1412 CE
Honor from the series "The Honors"
Bernard van Orley · designed before 1520, woven between 1525 and 1532
Courtly Odes, Beginning with "Wild Geese"
Ma Hezhi · mid-12th century
Odes of the State of Bin
Ma Hezhi · mid-12th century
Cylinder seal and modern impression: banquet scene with seated figures drinking a liquid through straws
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2350 BCE
Duke Wen of Jin Recovering His State
Li Tang · mid-12th 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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 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 2026-08-27 23:36 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.