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. 15 shown for “Sword fitting” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (Daishō)
Sukemitsu of Bizen · sword (katana) blade, dated 1440; short sword (wakizashi) blade, 15th century; mountings, late 18th century
Sword fitting: Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
唐草図鐔 Sword Guard (Tsuba)
鷲田光中作 Washida Mitsunaka · 19th century
Sword fitting
Artist not stated in the record · 206-9 B.C.E
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Honjō Yoshitane · 19th century
Sword fitting
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Ishiguro Masayoshi · 19th century
Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1772–80
Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)
Gotō Sōjō · late 15th–early 16th century
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Gotō Mitsuakira · 19th century
木賊兎図大小揃物 Fittings for a Pair of Swords (Daishō Soroi-Mono)
石黒政美 Ishiguro Masayoshi · 19th century
Hunting Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · hilt, ca. 1700; blade, ca. 1700–1725
Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450
Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)
Ginshōtei Tōmei · 19th century
波濤に岩上鷹図大小鐔 Matching Pair of Sword Guards (Daishō-tsuba)
石黒政常 Ishiguro Masatsune · late 18th–early 19th century
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. 1014 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 9235 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 10:55 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.