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 “Wedgwood, English, established 1759” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Teapot
John Bartlam · ca. 1765–69
Ptolemy II
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

Venus and the Lute Player
Titian · ca. 1565–70
Poppaea Sabina
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book, in three parts
Thomas Sheraton · 1793–94
Portrait medallion
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

Pocket watch
Robert Roskell · 1820–21
Architas
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Strainer
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · late 18th century

The Stolen Kiss
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760
Flavian Julia Helena
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

Ancient Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757
Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506

Cup
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1780

Mourning Britannia
Saint James's Factory · 1751
James II
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780

Modern Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757
Dish
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · late 18th century
Theophrastus of Eresus
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780
Prusias I
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1767–1780
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14748 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 11:16 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.