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. 12 shown for “Sugar Box (part of a set)” — 40 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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

Sugar Bowl
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1780

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

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

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

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

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

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

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

Dutch Color Standards
Artist not stated in the record · 1882

Postcard for Sugar Ray's Cafe
Artist not stated in the record · 1946-1954

George III silver sugar tongs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3862693 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 2026-09-01 13:48 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.