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. 22 shown for “Miniature tea and coffee set” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Miniature tea and coffee set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Partial Tea and Coffee Set with Urn Pattern
Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · 1780–1800

Miniature tea and coffee set
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg · 1825–55

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

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

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

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

Glass Beaker, from a Buen Retiro Porcelain Tea or Coffee Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1803

Tea
James Tissot · 1872

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

Miniature urn with cover
A. L. & W. L. · ca. 1780

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

Miniature tea canister (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

Set of six miniature saucers
David Clayton · ca. 1720–30

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

Coffeepot
Robert and William Wilson · ca. 1830

Tea and Coffee Service
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

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

Black Basalt Coffee and Tea Service (partial)
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · late 18th century

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

Tea and Coffee Service with Rose Medallion
Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · early 19th century
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. 95 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. 1470260 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 14:01 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.