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 “Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory)” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:52 UTC · fetched live for this request

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.

Vase with cover (part of a garniture)

Lambertus van Eenhoorn · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met

plate

Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory) · 1691–1721

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Beaker vase (one of a pair, part of a garniture)

Lambertus van Eenhoorn · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met

Bowl

Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory) · 1679–1691

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Double-gourd vase (one of a pair, part of a garniture)

Lambertus van Eenhoorn · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met

Plate

Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory) · 1691–1721

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Beaker vase (one of a pair, part of a garniture)

Lambertus van Eenhoorn · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met

Footed Salver

Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory) · 1691–1724

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Double-gourd vase (one of a pair, part of a garniture)

Lambertus van Eenhoorn · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met

Bowl and lid

Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory) · ca. 1690–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Posset pot

Lambeth Factories · ca. 1687

Public domainThe Met

Saucière. Moutardier.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Wine pot in the shape of a peach (cadogan type)

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met

Saucière. Moutardier.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met

Chocolate Pot with Floral Sprays

Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory, German, established by 1753 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met

Iron cooking pot hook from the Brock Plantation

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met

Pot à Oille. Sucrier.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Adoration of the Magi from Seven Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met

Pot à Oille. Sucrier.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Mustard pot or milk pot

Jean-Baptiste-François Chéret · 1763–64

Public domainThe Met

Iron cooking pot hook from the Brock Plantation

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 201 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. 382 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 08:52 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.