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. 20 shown for “Tea caddy spoon” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:40 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)
John Swift · 1762–63

Tea Caddy Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 1855

Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)
John Swift · 1762–63

Tea Caddy Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 1877

Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)
John Swift · 1762–63

Tea Caddy Spoon
Edward C. Moore (1827-1891) · late 19th century

Tea caddy spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–91

Hexagonal Balustrade Tea Caddy
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1740

Tea caddy spoon
William Hamey · early 19th century

Tea caddy and case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40

Tea caddy spoon
John Bettridge · 1819–20

Tea Caddy
Artist not stated in the record · 1807

Tea caddy and spoon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

One of a Pair of Tea Caddies
Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716

Tea Caddy
Simeon Soumaine · ca. 1720

House Model
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Tea Caddy
Simeon Soumaine · 1725–40

Tea Caddy
Peter Van Dyck · 1725–40

Tea Caddy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

Tea caddy
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · 1745–50
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. 313 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. 11316 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:40 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.