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. 20 shown for “Factory of Leroy” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Teapot
Arij de Milde · 1671–1708

wig stand
Factory of Leroy · mid-18th century

Bottle with a thistle medallion
John Dwight · ca. 1675–76

Sketch of a Textile Printing Factory
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Seated Chinese
Saint-Cloud factory · ca. 1730–40

Factory mark
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–80

Figure of a standing Chinese man
Villeroy · ca. 1740

Fragment with factory stamp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Vase
Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Fragment with factory stamp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Potpourri with cover
Niderviller · 1760–65

Elevation of a factory (?) at edge of river
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

Chinese musicians
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Worked metal
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900

Shoulao
Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Drill
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1900

Harlequin family
Villeroy · ca. 1740–45

Vase
Thomas Tucker · 1828–38

Vase with cover (part of a garniture)
Lambertus van Eenhoorn · ca. 1690

The Factory Village
Julian Alden Weir · 1897
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. 8603 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. 2863835 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:26 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.