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. 24 shown for “Lion Form Knife Handle” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Handle Depicting a Lion Subduing a Nubian
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Lion Form Knife Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650–75
Bone knife handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE
Knife with Green-stained Ivory and Silver Applique Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1730–50
Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 1882
Folding Knife with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Bronze handle of a patera (shallow bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–5th century BCE
Spoon with Lion's Head (with Fork and Knife)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400
Fork with Porcelain Handle (with Knife and Spoon)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730
Key Handle in the Form of a Horse’s Head
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century
Knife with Porcelain Handle (with Fork and Spoon)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Aquamanile in the Form of a Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880
Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880
Bronze patera handle in the form of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800
Steel Knife with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Fork and Knife with Carved Oak Handles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Painter of London B 620 · ca. 520 BCE
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880
Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and spout)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880
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. 169 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 57369 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 08:35 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.