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 “Water dropper in the shape of a rhinoceros” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:21 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.
Water dropper in the shape of a rhinoceros
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE
Cup in the shape of a magnolia blossom
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Water Dropper in the form of a Seated Demon
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century
Cup in the shape of a magnolia blossom
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Water Dropper in the Form of a Kneeling Hunchbacked Chinese Man
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century
Tea or hot water urn
John McMullin · 1799
Cup in the shape of an archaic vessel with feline dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Water-Dropper (Suiteki) in Raccoon Dog Shape
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Water Dropper in the Form of a Kneeling Man
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century
Glass snake-thread dropper flask
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE
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. 969 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 16:21 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.