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 teapot (part of a set)” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:56 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

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

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

Teapot
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846

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

Lid and Two-Part Spout of Hot Water Kettle
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · ca. 1845

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

Creamer
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1832

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

Sugar Bowl
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846

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

Hot Water Urn
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846

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

Barge Pot, "I Like It Good"
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

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

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

Tea set
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–mid-19th century

Teapot with Lion Head Spout
Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868 · 1825–1838

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

Miniature sugar bowl with cover (part of a 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
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. 5186 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. 3856827 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 15:56 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.