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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. 21 shown for “Spoon from an Ivory Cutlery Set” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831
Spoon from an Ivory Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1700
Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)
Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710
Knife, fork, spoon, and corkscrew in a case (Étui de couvert)
Anonymous · late 17th or 18th century
Traveling cutlery set
Chez Aucoc, France, established 1821 · 1819–1835
Settee
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885
Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
Cabinet
Melchior Baumgartner · ca. 1655–59, engraved decorations ca. 1825–50
Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–50
Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40
Folding Spoon with Engraved Decoration From Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827
Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968
Knife from Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century or 19th century
Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420
Fork from Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century or 19th century
Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170
Folding Spoon From a Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–10
Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork
Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656
Gilt Demitasse Spoon, Part of Set of Ten
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880
Booklet with Scenes of the Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)
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. 324 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 490972 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 15:09 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.