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. 22 shown for “Carving knife and fork” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Fork and Knife with Carved Oak Handles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Carving knife and fork
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900
Carving knife and fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century
Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900
Fork
Nicolas Collier · 1769–70
Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900
Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
Knife Sharpener with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900
Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Mortimer & Hunt · Handle ca. 1710; blade ca. 1840
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Knife
RG · 16th–17th century
Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Small Knife with Fluted Ivory Handle
Joseph Willmore · 1830
Knife
Vienna · ca. 1730
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th 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. 202 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1497476 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-01 16:33 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.