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. 23 shown for “Design for Salt Cellars” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 08:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Salt
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Design for Salt Cellars
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840

Trencher Salt
Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710

Design for Salt Cellars, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

Trencher Salt
Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710

Design for a Salt Cellar
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · early 19th century

Salt
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900

Design for a Salt Cellar
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

Design for a Salt Cellar and Tazza
Ottavio Strada · n.d.

Design for a Salt Cellar
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1795–1805

Dish with The Story of Semiramis
Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo · 1534

Design for a Salt Cellar in the Shape of a Sleigh
Artist not stated in the record · 1675-1690

Drawing for Centerpiece and Salt Cellars
Anonymous, Italian, 18th century · 18th century

Designs for a Sauce Boat and Salt Cellars
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar
Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE
![Differents Desseins de Sallieres [Various Designs for Salt Dishes], pl. 63 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26811_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Differents Desseins de Sallieres [Various Designs for Salt Dishes], pl. 63 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE

Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · ca. 1800

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE

Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C?

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon
Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE
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. 136 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 501657 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-04 08:57 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.