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. 15 shown for “Fork Tines with Threaded Screw End for Attaching Handle” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork
Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656

Fork Tines with Threaded Screw End for Attaching Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–5th century BCE

Glass pendant shaped like a jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century CE

Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–5th century BCE
fork tines
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Trotting horse
Giambologna · 18th–19th century?

Fork Tines with Threaded Screw Base
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well
Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80

Glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Glass jug
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE
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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 685377 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-02 22:00 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.