OpenTwo 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 “Tea urn” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tea Urn
Paul Revere Jr. · 1791
Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World
Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1777
Tea urn
P. B., Paris · 1845
Partial Tea and Coffee Set with Urn Pattern
Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · 1780–1800
Tea or hot water urn
John McMullin · 1799
Teapot
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846
Tea urn
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785
Hot Water Urn
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846
Tea urn
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765
Sugar Bowl
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846
Tea urn
James Dixon & Sons · 1830–34
Creamer
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1832
Tea urn
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90
Lid and Two-Part Spout of Hot Water Kettle
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · ca. 1845
Tea urn
John Carter II · 1773–74
One of a Pair of Tea Caddies
Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716
Hot Water Urn (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1804
Coffeepot
Artist not stated in the record · 1858
Hot water urn
Louisa Courtauld · 1765–66
Sugar Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1858
Miniature urn with cover
A. L. & W. L. · ca. 1780
Teapot
Artist not stated in the record · 1858
Teapot (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1805
Death of Lord Nelson
Artist not stated in the record · 1806–07
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. 40 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. 5792 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-03 08:35 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.