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 “Glazed Spouted Pot” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Glazed Spouted Pot
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Teapot and lid
John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780 · ca. 1780

Chocolate Pot
Tiffany & Co. · 1879

Posset Pot
De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774 · 1705–40

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

Satsuma ware sake ewer
Artist not stated in the record · second half of 17th-18th century

Water jar with spout (vase à bec)
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1893–1909

Pot
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Pot
Makuzu Kōzan I (Miyagawa Toranosuke) · 1890

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1893–1909

Engraved spouted jar
Maya artist(s) · 50 BCE–100 CE

Pot used to serve coffee or tea from Wormley's Hotel
Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Pot
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Chocolate Pot with Camaieu Landscapes
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Posset pot
Lambeth Factories · ca. 1687

Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1735

Footed pot
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Vessel
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1879–82

Pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–7th century CE

Teapot
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1882

Pot
Artist not stated in the record · 1820

Coffeepot with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900
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. 1498 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. 19277 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-01 22:31 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.