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. 23 shown for “Spoon with carved ibex decoration” — 55 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Spoon with carved ibex decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Spoon with Carved Figural Coral Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1630

Ewer and stand (présentoir)
Martin Gizl · 1758

Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Ibex beaker with gilded silver mounts
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Traveling Spoon with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

Cup with Running Ibexes
Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Small Spoon with Fluted Ivory Handle
Joseph Willmore · 1829

Dish with Floral Designs
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Traveling Fork with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

Incised furniture plaque with two ibexes flanking a stylized palmette tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Spoon from an Ivory Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1700

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Bottle with Flying Cranes
Artist not stated in the record · 1650s

Design for a Thurible, Boat and Spoon
Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

Cosmetic box in the shape of a composite capital
Artist not stated in the record · 664–300 BCE

Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

Lidded prestige vessel
"Unobadula" · Mid–late 19th century

snuff bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1821–51

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 317384 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 12:59 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.