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. 22 shown for “Sword Pommel” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400
Designs for Sword Handles, Pommels, and Dagger Hilts
Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · ca. 1615
Sword pommel
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE
Sword Hilt (Handles) and Guard Designs
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700
Sword Pommel
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th century
Axe shaft cap
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 BCE
Sword Pommel
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century
Sword hilt with ring pommel in the form of a dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Sword
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century BCE
Mameluke sword presented to Capt. George Garrison by the 55th Massachusetts
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
Sword
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE
Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55
Design for a Sword Hilt
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · ca. 1750
Viking Sword
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century
Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Sword Pommel with the Arms of Pierre de Dreux (ca. 1187–1250), Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1240–50
Design for a Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Round Dagger Pommel with Scalloped Edges
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century
Sword from the Civil War era
Ames Manufacturing Company, American, founded 1791 · 1861-1865
Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)
C. Liger · hallmarked for 1785–86
Sword Pommel
Artist not stated in the record
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. 714 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. 5211 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 02:51 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.