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. 24 shown for “Varages Pottery Factory, French, active 18th century” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plate
Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1800

Inkstand
Varages Pottery Factory, French, active 18th century · ca. 1770

Tiles with the devices of Claude d'Urfé
Masséot Abaquesne · ca. 1557–60

Platter
Varages Pottery Factory, French, active 18th century · ca. 1745

54 Tiles from the chapel of Château de la Bastie d'Urfé, France
Masséot Abaquesne · ca. 1557–60

Album of Arabesque Designs
Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

NOUVEAUX TROPHÉES OU CARTOUCHES Représentant Les Arts et Les Sciences Composée avec les Artributs qui-les caractérisent INVENTÉS ET DÉDIÉS A MR MORLOT PEINTRE par Son Elève et Son Ami MARILLIER
Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Barber's basin
Veuve Perrin Factory · late 18th century

Trophy Design
Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Trophy Design
Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Standing cup (coupe Chenavard)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1837

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Chocolate pot
Olérys Factory · 18th century

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Plate
Pierre-Clement Caussey · ca. 1750–60

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Platter
Jacques Hustin · early 18th century

Title Page
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

Tray
Joseph Hannong · 18th century

Cartouche Design
Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68
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. 65 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 159578 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 09:21 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.