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. 24 shown for “Zodiac figure: snake” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Snake
Saint-Honoré-les-Bains · ca. 1870–1880
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Zodiac figure: snake
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Set of twelve zodiac animals
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Chinese zodiac figure, snake
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Inkwell with Zodiac Signs
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Gold snake ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE
Title Page Design for Le Zodiaque Travesti (Farcical Zodiac)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Inkwell with Twelve Zodiac Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze)
Artist not stated in the record · 1582
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Chinese zodiac figure of a snake
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century
Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
Sagittarius (section of a zodiac frieze)
Artist not stated in the record · 1582
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Capricorne (Capricorn) from le Zodiac Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824
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. 455 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 40874 matched · 40 examined · 7 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:18 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.