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 “Spouted pot” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Spouted pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050–800 BCE

Pot used to serve coffee or tea from Wormley's Hotel
Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Chocolate Pot
Tiffany & Co. · 1879

Coffee Service
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1903

Glazed Spouted Pot
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Design for a Teapot
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Posset pot
Lambeth Factories · ca. 1687

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash
William Fountain, English · 1806

Pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–7th century CE

Posset Pot
De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774 · 1705–40

Mustard pot or milk pot
Jean-Baptiste-François Chéret · 1763–64

Chocolate Pot with Camaieu Landscapes
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Engraved spouted jar
Maya artist(s) · 50 BCE–100 CE

Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1735

Pot
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Coffeepot with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

Chocolate Pot
Edward Winslow · 1700–1710

Teapot and cover
John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780 · ca. 1785

Chocolate pot
François Thomas Germain · 1765–66

Teapot (Théière)
Bourg-la-Reine Porcelain Factory, French, ca. 1773 – 1805 · ca. 1780

Milk Pot
John C. Moore · 1850

Hot milk pot
Alois Simpert Eschenlohr · 1823–24
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. 120 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. 14010 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 20:30 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.