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. 13 shown for “Knife with Sheath, Chopsticks, and Earspoon” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:04 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 with Sheath, Chopsticks, and Earspoon
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Chopsticks, knife and case
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Knife with Sheath, Chopsticks, Picks, and Earspoon
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Knife with Sheath, Chopsticks, Pickle Spear and Toothpicks
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Knife with Sheath, Chopsticks, Pickle Spear and Picks
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Knife with Sheath, Belt and Chopsticks
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Knife with Sheath, Chopsticks and Belt Loop
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1900

Knife with Sheath and Chopsticks
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Imperial Knife with Sheath
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Knife with Sheath and Chopsticks (Trousse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Kris with Sheath
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–19th century

Hunting Knife with a Set of Implements (Trousse)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Knife (Kukri) with Sheath, Two Small Knives and Pouch
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 142 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1528882 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:04 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.