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. 13 shown for “Sword from the Arsenal of Alexandria” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 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 from the Arsenal of Alexandria
Artist not stated in the record · before 1419
Lantern slide of the slave dealers, Birch & Co., in Alexandria, Virginia
Artist not stated in the record · 1862
Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400
Medallion with a Portrait of Gennadios
Artist not stated in the record · 250–300
Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)
Ahmed Tekelü · ca. 1525–30
Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611)
Israel Schuech · dated 1606
Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE
Hunting Sword with Scabbard
Joseph Deutschmann · ca. 1740
Magical Stela with Horus the Child
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE
Viking Sword
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century
Helmet with Aventail
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s
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. 2741 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. 3076740 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 03:29 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.