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. 24 shown for “Two apostle spoons” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Two apostle spoons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1661

Apostle spoon: Master
William Cawdell · 1592/93

Apostle Spoon with St. Michael Terminal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Apostle spoon: St. Peter
William Cawdell · 1592/93

St. Christopher Apostle Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Apostle spoon: St. Jude
William Cawdell · 1592/93

Two Apostles
Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1750

Apostle spoon: St. John
William Cawdell · 1592/93

The Assumption of the Virgin
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Apostle spoon: St. Simon Zelotes
William Cawdell · 1592/93

Three Apostles
Federico Zuccaro, Italian, 1542 – 1609 · ca. 1540–1609

Apostle spoon: St. Philip
William Cawdell · 1592/93

Christ Appearing to the Apostles at the Sea of Gallilee (Lake Tiberias), the Miraculous Draught of Fishes
Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593 - 1678 · ca. 1650–1670

Apostle spoon: St. Andrew
Martin Hewitt · 1613–14

The Apostles Carrying the Body of the Virgin to the Tomb, Study after Lodovico Carracci
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

Apostle spoon: St. Matthew
William Cawdell · 1592/93

Martyrdom of St. Andrew
Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · 1825–50

Apostle spoon: St. Matthias
William Cawdell · 1592/93
Case for Set of Ten Gilt Demitasse Spoons
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880

Apostle spoon: St. Bartholomew
William Cawdell · 1592/93

Spoon
Phillipe Berthier, French, active Paris 1841-1851 · 19th century

Apostle spoon: St. Thomas
William Cawdell · 1592/93

Christ on the Mount of Olives (Agony in the Garden), from the Great Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1498
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. 396 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 57720 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-28 23:43 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.