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. 23 shown for “Saucer with floral patterns” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saucer with floral patterns
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Cup and Saucer
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1805

Cup and saucer with floral patterns
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Cup and Saucer
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1781

Saucer
Meissen Manufactory · 1724–25

Cup and Saucer
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1780

Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Cup
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · early 19th century

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th century

Incense burner with floral patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Cup and Saucer
Duc d'Angoulême Porcelain Manufactory, French, 1781 – 1828 · late 18th century

Incense burner with floral patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Cup and Saucer
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1790–1810

Saucer with floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Saucer with floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Cup (and Saucer) with Raised "Gotzkowsky" Pattern
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1740

Saucer with floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Cup and Saucer
Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · ca. 1800

Saucer with floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Cup and Saucer
Bristol China Manufactory, English, 1770 - 1781 · ca. 1775

Saucer
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1715–19, decorated ca. 1740

China saucers from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1933
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. 1442 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. 256393 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-01 17:23 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.