OpenTwo 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. 11 shown for “Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Harlequin with jug
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1740
Columbine and Pantalone
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1736
Lion (one of a pair)
Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732
Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1770
Fountain and basin
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727–32
Three-light candelabra (candélabre or girandole) (one of a pair)
Johann Joachim Kändler · ca. 1750
Teapot with equestrian scene
Meissen Manufactory · 1722–23
Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1768
Wine pot in the shape of a peach (cadogan type)
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725
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. 811 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:28 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.