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 “Design for a Painted Porcelain Soup Plate” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Design for a Painted Porcelain Soup Plate
Artist not stated in the record · 1787–1800

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Soup Plate
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · 1756–early 1760s

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Soup Plate
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th–early 19th century

Combination table
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Soup Plate
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th–early 19th century

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Soup Plate (One of a Pair)
Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1770

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Oranges (Oranges) from Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Soup Plate (One of a Pair)
Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1770

Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1770

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Loading or Unloading Goods
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1820–35

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1773

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Cerises (Cherries) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–1920

Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1768

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Lion (Leo) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Compotes et Marmelades (Compotes and Marmalades) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, La Vierge (The Virgin) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824
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. 1563 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2172795 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 05:32 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.