Two 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. 23 shown for “Design for a Knife Handle Showing Faith” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Design for a Knife Handle Showing Faith
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Design for a Knife Handle Showing Prudence
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1675
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Design for a Knife Handle Showing One of the Virtues
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Design for a Knife Handle Showing Charity
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

Commode
Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder · ca. 1735–40

Design for Two Knife Handles
Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563 · 1583

Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (Daishō)
Sukemitsu of Bizen · sword (katana) blade, dated 1440; short sword (wakizashi) blade, 15th century; mountings, late 18th century

Design for Two Knife Handles
Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563 · 1583

Paper knife
Castellani · ca. 1863

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Steel Knife with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Knife Handle with Threaded Screw End for Attaching to Blade
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800

Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono) with Two Additional Knife Handles (Kozuka) and a Pair of Grip Ornaments (Menuki)
Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa) · 17th century

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono) with Two Additional Knife Handles (Kozuka) and a Pair of Grip Ornaments (Menuki)
Gotō Tsūjō · late 17th–early 18th century
Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Case for Fork and Knife with Antler and Silver Handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40

Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th 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. 449 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2108655 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 17:20 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.