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 “Miniature coffeepot (part of a set)” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Miniature secretary incorporating a watch
James Cox · ca. 1766–72

Traveling Coffee Service
Gregoire et Cordonnier, French, 1866 – 1868 · 1866–1868

Miniature coffeepot (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Portrait miniature set on a bracelet
Ebenezer Mack, American · ca. 1790 (portrait miniature); ca. 1830 (bracelet)

Miniature coffeepot (part of a set)
Henry Flavelle · 1827 and 1829

Coffeepot with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

Coffeepot
François Thomas Germain · 1757

Sugar Bowl, from a Miniature Tea Set
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · 19th–mid- 19th century

Coffeepot
Lenox, Incorporated · ca. 1906

Tray, from a Miniature Tea Set
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · 19th–mid- 19th century

Miniature coffeepot with cover (part of a set)
David Clayton · late 17th–early 18th century

Portrait Miniature Mirror with Pouch
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Miniature saucer (one of five) (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Cup and Saucer, from a Miniature Tea Set
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · 19th–mid- 19th century

Miniature cream pitcher (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Miniature teapot (part of a set)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Coffeepot
Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1715–20; decorated ca. 1728–30

Coffeepot
Sébastien Igonet · 1738–39
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. 5095 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. 3856707 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 2026-08-27 18:46 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.