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. 14 shown for “Water Pipe Base” — 64 records examined, 45 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Design for a wall fountain
Izabel M. Coles, American, 1890 - 1964 · ca. 1907–1909
Water Pipe Base
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Water Pipe Base
Artist not stated in the record · probably 18th–19th century
Water Pipe Base
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Water Pipe Base
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century
Water Pipe Base
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Water Pipe Base
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Water Pipe Base
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Water Pipe Base (Qalian)
Artist not stated in the record · probably 18th–19th century
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Poetry and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319
Water Pipe Top
Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 1238 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 98246 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 21:25 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.