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. 15 shown for “Sickle sword” — 49 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 20:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sickle sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1307–1275 BCE

Daniel E. Sickles
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1861

Basket-Hilted Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–40

Daniel E. Sickles
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Daniel E. Sickles
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Gotō Teijō (Mitsumasa) · 17th century

Wire frame, sickle on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Wheellock Carbine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540–50

Wire frame, sickle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Cylinder seal and modern impression: smiting weather god before a Syrian goddess, nude goddess; ankh symbols
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–1650 BCE

Wire frame, sickle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Daniel Edgar Sickles
Louis Prang Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1899 · c. 1862

Daniel Edgar Sickles
Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894 · c. 1861
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 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. 6059 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 20:00 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.