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. 22 shown for “Two Tined Fork With Engraved Braided Pattern” — 50 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Toasting fork
Artist not stated in the record · 1561

Two Tined Fork With Engraved Braided Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey
Artist not stated in the record · mid-to late13th century

Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Rapier
Pietro de Formicano · ca. 1610–20

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Matchlock Musket
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Fork from Folding Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1720

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Fork with Spiral Pattern Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Prostibula vel (ut mollius dicam) amica Veneta; Ducis Veneti Vxor; Nobilis matrona Veneta; Virgo Veneta
Abraham de Bruyn · 1580

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)
Artist not stated in the record · crossbow, ca. 1575–1650; cranequin dated 1562

Two-Tined Fork with Earthenware Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1745

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Portrait of a Young Woman
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1540–45

Two Long Tined Fork with Brass Panel Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Large Two Tined Serving Fork with Brass Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 478533 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 14:02 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.