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. 19 shown for “Wedding knife and fork” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wedding knife and fork
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Dessert Fork and Knife with Accompanying Case
Francis Higgins III · 1884
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Fork and Knife with Porcelain Handles
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century
Fork and Knife with Porcelain Handles
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century
Fork
Nicolas Collier · 1769–70
Fork and Knife with Porcelain Handles
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th–18th century
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Fork and Knife with Glazed Earthenware Handles
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Saxony, Germany, founded 1710 · mid-18th century
Knife
RG · 16th–17th century
Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Knife
Vienna · ca. 1730
Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Case for Fork, Knife and Spoon with Ivory Handles
Joseph Willmore · ca. 1830
Case for Fork and Knife with Antler and Silver Handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40
Cutlery case, trays and key
Unknown · ca. 1890
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. 109 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1488243 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-27 12:50 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.