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. 24 shown for “Pair of salt cellars” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Salt
Samuel Kirk and Son · 1846
Pair of salt cellars
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century
Salt
Samuel Kirk and Son · 1846
Design for Salt Cellars, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560
Salt
Robert Cruickshank · ca. 1795–1805
Design for Salt Cellars
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840
Salt
Robert Cruickshank · ca. 1795–1805
Design for a Salt Cellar
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800
Salt
Josiah Austin · 1755–65
Design for a Salt Cellar
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1795–1805
Salt
Josiah Austin · 1755–65
Salt Cellar and Snuff Boxes
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1695–1750
Trencher Salt
Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710
Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · ca. 1800
Trencher Salt
Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710
Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century
Salt Cellar
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Designs for a Sauce Boat and Salt Cellars
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796
Two Salt Cellars
René Boyvin · 16th–17th century
Mustard Pot, Lantern, Salt Cellar
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE
Design for a Salt Cellar
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · early 19th century
Terracotta fragment of a salt cellar?
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century BCE
![Sallieres et Tabatières [Salt Dishes and Snuff Boxes], plate 69 in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26809_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Sallieres et Tabatières [Salt Dishes and Snuff Boxes], plate 69 in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740
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. 123 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2865232 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-04 09:01 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.