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. 20 shown for “Design for a Serving Spoon” — 64 records examined, 42 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.
Spoon holder
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1878–81
Design for a Serving Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century
Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Designs for Silver Serving Pieces
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century
China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755
Salad Serving Spoon with Pentagonal Terminal
Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1910–14
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884
Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Glaces (Ice Cream) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20
Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690
Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
Venetian
Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015 · ca. 1880–85
Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490
Folding Fork with Attachable Spoon Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640
Spoon (one of a set)
Antonio Gentili (Antonio da Faenza) · late 16th century
Louis XVI Pattern Serving Spoon
Joseph E. Birmingham · ca. 1909
Grain serving vessel (gui)
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century BCE
Spoon
Nicolas Collier · 1769–70
Spoon
David Willaume I · 18th century
Spoon
Theodore B. Starr · ca. 1905
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. 4288 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 2097480 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 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.