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. 23 shown for “Fire irons” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fire-irons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–90
Pair of wig stands
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–60
Fire irons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80
Lumbermen's Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1873
Iron fire-dog
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE
Lumbermen's Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1873
Lumbermen's Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1873
Iron fire-grate
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE
Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1600-1615
Iron fire-tongs
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th or early 3rd century BCE
Peabody Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1869
Two fragmentary iron fire-rakes
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th or early 3rd century BCE
Kentucky and Louisville Mutual Fire Mark
unknown · 1840
Fireback
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter 17th century
United States Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1834
Fire iron holder (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–60
United States Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1841-1842
Pair of five-light candelabra
Luigi Valadier · 1774
Pittsburgh Navigation and Fire Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1832
Fire iron holder (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–60
Mobile Fire Department Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1866-1879
Fire iron holder (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–60
Western Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1857
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. 379 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. 29572 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-29 09:28 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.