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Images / art

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 Tray” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:00 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Tray

Design for a Painted Porcelain Tray

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Combination table, by Martin Carlin

Combination table

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Tureen and Tray, by French National Porcelain Manufactury at Vincennes, 1738 – 1756

Design for a Painted Porcelain Tureen and Tray

French National Porcelain Manufactury at Vincennes, 1738 – 1756 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Prunes et Pruneaux (Plums and Prunes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Prunes et Pruneaux (Plums and Prunes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray, by Sèvres Manufactory

Tray

Sèvres Manufactory · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Liqueurs (Liqueurs) for the Services des Objets des Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Liqueurs (Liqueurs) for the Services des Objets des Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Sorbets (Sorbets) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Sorbets (Sorbets) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux), by Martin Carlin

Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Compotes et Marmelades (Compotes and Marmalades) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1773

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Müres (Mulberries) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Müres (Mulberries) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour), by Martin Carlin

Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Tartelettes (Little Tarts) for the Service des Objets de Desserts (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Tartelettes (Little Tarts) for the Service des Objets de Desserts (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux), by Martin Carlin

Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Glaces (Ice Cream) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Glaces (Ice Cream) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk (bonheur du jour), by Martin Carlin

Desk (bonheur du jour)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Tray for a Covered Dish, by Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838

Tray for a Covered Dish

Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk (bonheur du jour), by Martin Carlin

Desk (bonheur du jour)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1769

Public domainThe Met
Tray, from a Miniature Tea Set, by Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864

Tray, from a Miniature Tea Set

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · 19th–mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Tray

Tray

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 6759 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2113197 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-06 04:00 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.