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. 13 shown for “Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Factory, active 1708–1860” — 21 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Ewer
Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Factory, active 1708–1860 · ca. 1750

Four carnival musicians
Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory · ca. 1770

Harlequin and Columbine with birdcage
Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1762

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Tiles with the devices of Claude d'Urfé
Masséot Abaquesne · ca. 1557–60

54 Tiles from the chapel of Château de la Bastie d'Urfé, France
Masséot Abaquesne · ca. 1557–60

Standing cup (coupe Chenavard)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1837

Plate with imaginary portrait of the tragic poet Moschion
Sèvres Manufactory · 1811–18

Four Carnival Musicians
Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory · ca. 1770

Bird Vendor
Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory · ca. 1773

The Pottery Seller
Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1745

Two soldiers shaking hands
Kelsterbach Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory · 1761–64
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. 20 matched · 20 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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:50 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.