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. 18 shown for “Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle” — 46 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Two-tined Fork with Brass Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Serving Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

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

Table fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Large Two Tined Serving Fork with Brass Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Table fork
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Knife with Brass Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Carving knife and fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Knife with Brass Handle
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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

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

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Folding Fork with Damascened Floral Handle
FGS · ca. 1700

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 907 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 14:03 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.