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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. 24 shown for “Sword Hilt with Fishing Boats and Water Birds” — 59 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Sword Hilt with Fishing Boats and Water Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Fishing Boats on a River
Salomon van Ruysdael · early 1660s
Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE
Design for a Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Riverscape with moored boats
Wu Shantao · late 17th or early 18th century
Scabbard and sword
Artist not stated in the record · 1596–1615
Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna
Nina de Garis Davies · 1924; original ca. 1396–1347 BCE
Designs for Sword Handles, Pommels, and Dagger Hilts
Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · ca. 1615
Venice from the Bacino di San Marco
Francesco Guardi · ca. 1765–75
Sword hilt
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Sword Guard (Tsuba) Depicting Heron on Boat (一路平安図鐔)
Shōzui · 18th century
Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839
Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th century
Summer Robe (Hito-e) with Cormorant-Fishing Scene
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century
Presentation saber and scabbard used by Colonel Charles Young
S.N. Meyer Military & Society Goods, American, 1871 - 1925 · 1914-1922
Ceremonial digging stick
Chincha artist(s) · 1200–1535 CE
Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1595–1615
Wangchuan Villa
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711
Mixed Studies with Mounted Bedouin Guides, Palestine or Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868
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. 19 matched · 19 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. 2209355 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-02 07:58 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.