Two 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 “Traveling Spoon” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 13:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 305–30 BCE

Traveling Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

Traveling spoon and fork
Joseph-Baptiste Fuchs · ca. 1833

Traveling Spoon with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

Spoon
Nicolas Collier · 1769–70

Traveling Knife
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

Spoon
H. H., London · 1874–75

Traveling Fork
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

Traveling set
I.F. · ca. 1760
Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Traveling set in leather case
Johann Ludwig Laminit · ca. 1745–50

Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Traveling set with glass beaker in case
Samuel Bardet · 1777–79
Folding Spoon From Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–50

Traveling set in leather case
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Traveling Fork with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

Fork and spoon (part of a traveling set)
Artist not stated in the record · 1768

Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1798–1809

Teabowl and Accessories
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Folding Spoon From a Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–10

Traveling set
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Spoon (part of a traveling set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Folding Knife From Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
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. 41 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. 16309 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-29 13:16 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.