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. 13 shown for “Knife Handle (Kozuka) Depicting Shells on Beach (海辺に貝散図小柄)” — 45 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Knife Handle (Kozuka) Depicting Shells on Beach (海辺に貝散図小柄)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Knife with Silver and Tortoise-Shell Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
Knife with Silver and Tortoise-Shell Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80
Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880
Cake Server with Japonesque Engraving and Mother-of-pearl Handle
François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890
Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880
Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Small Serving Fork with Tines Skewering Fish
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1053394 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-28 19:34 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.