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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. 24 shown for “Knife with Saber-Shaped Blade and Earthenware Handle” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 12:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)
Yokoyama Kōzukedaijō Sukesada · blade, late 17th century; mounting, 19th century
Knife with Saber-Shaped Blade and Earthenware Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745
虫尽金具大小拵 Blade and Mounting for a Sword (Katana)
Yokoyama Kōzukedaijō Sukesada · blade, 17th century; mounting, early 19th century
Knife with Agate Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700
Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (Daishō)
Sukemitsu of Bizen · sword (katana) blade, dated 1440; short sword (wakizashi) blade, 15th century; mountings, late 18th century
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900
Knife with a Hand Holding an Orb
Artist not stated in the record · probably 3rd century
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900
Knife with an Ivory Handle and Qur'anic Inscriptions
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880
Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century CE or later
Dinner Knife With Engraved Braided Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40
Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Mortimer & Hunt · Handle ca. 1710; blade ca. 1840
Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
Knife with Spiral Pattern Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760
Steel Knife with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Knife with Porcelain Handle
Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1740
Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 1786–87
Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle
François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890
Vajra Flaying Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 15th century
Knife with Porcelain Handle (One of a Pair)
Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1740
Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork
Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656
Traveling Knife
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century
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. 73 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 461 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 12:09 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.