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. 23 shown for “Sword hilt with ring pommel in the form of a dragon” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55
Sword hilt with ring pommel in the form of a dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Short Sword (Yatagan) from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)
Ahmed Tekelü · ca. 1525–30
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
Designs for Sword Handles, Pommels, and Dagger Hilts
Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · ca. 1615
Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century
Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Knotted dragon ring
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE
Design for a Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Mameluke sword presented to Capt. George Garrison by the 55th Massachusetts
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
Sword Hilt
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · 1881–82
Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Rapier of Ambrogio Spinola (1569–1630) with Scabbard Chape
M. I. F. · ca. 1600
Ames Manufacturing Co. Presentation Sword & Scabbard
Ames Manufacturing Company · ca 1850
Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE
Sword Hilt (Handles) and Guard Designs
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century
Schuyler, Hartley & Graham Presentation Sword, Ames Manufacturing Co. Scabbard Inscribed "Genl. U.S. Grant Galena Ill's, Presented by G.W. Graham, C.B. Lagow, C.C. Marsh & John Cook 1861"
Schuyler, Hartley & Graham · 1861
Aquamanile in the Form of a Crowned Centaur Fighting a Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1225
Toledo 1873 Presentation Sword
Artist not stated in the record · 1873
Rapier
Pietro de Formicano · ca. 1610–20
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. 280 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. 7483538 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 05:17 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.