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. 19 shown for “Fruit Cake” — 63 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fruit Cake
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE
"Cheap Fruit Cake" item of ephemera
Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s
Still Life with Cake
Raphaelle Peale · 1818
"Fruit Cake" item of ephemera
Artist not stated in the record · 1900s-1950s
Lead votive roundel with table offerings
Artist not stated in the record
V-Mail facsimile letter
Artist not stated in the record · April 3, 1945
Basket
Myer Myers · 1770–76
Pair of Cake Tongs With Caterpillar
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
The Brioche
Edouard Manet · 1870
Cake Server with Japonesque Engraving and Mother-of-pearl Handle
François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890
Table offerings
Artist not stated in the record
Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle
François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890
Tazza
Chinese · 1662–1722
Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Spade Shaped Server with Slug and Cat Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6157 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 02:49 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.