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 “Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:24 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.

Pair of wall lights

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1765–68

Public domainThe Met

Pounce Pot (Sandstreuer)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Table

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1833–34

Public domainThe Met

Cup and Saucer with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Vase

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · 1820–25

Public domainThe Met

Sugar Bowl with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1773

Public domainThe Met

Cup and Saucer with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Cup and saucer

Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur), Berlin · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met

Cup and Saucer with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Cup and saucer

Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur), Berlin · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met

Cup and Saucer with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Lion (one of a pair)

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met

Cup and Saucer with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Harlequin

Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1750–53

Public domainThe Met

Cup and Saucer with Wheat Stalks

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1795–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)

Paul Gudin Le Jeune · clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38

Public domainThe Met

Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Lioness (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met

Cup and Saucer with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair)

Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · manufactured 1832, decorated 1844

Public domainThe Met

Cup and Saucer with Swans

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

St. John the Evangelist

Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744

Public domainThe Met

Cup and Saucer

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1800–1810

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. 96 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. 46427 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 21:24 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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