OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Candelabrum” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:12 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Candelabrum

Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Drawing for a candelabrum

Drawing for a candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum

Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum, by Edward Barnard & Sons, English

Candelabrum

Edward Barnard & Sons, English · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum

Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Censer and Candelabrum Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Censer and Candelabrum Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mimosa candelabrum var. joergensenii Burkart

Mimosa candelabrum var. joergensenii Burkart

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum

Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1836

Public domainThe Met
Three-Arm Candelabrum, by Valentijn Casper Beumke, German, active The Netherlands, 1726 - 1782

Three-Arm Candelabrum

Valentijn Casper Beumke, German, active The Netherlands, 1726 - 1782 · 1766

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum

Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1836

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Candelabrum

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · after 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candelabrum, by Anna M. de Pool

Design for a Candelabrum

Anna M. de Pool · ca. 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum

Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1666–99

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Candelabrum

Project for a Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum

Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1810

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum Motif

Candelabrum Motif

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum

Candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1810

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum Sketch, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Candelabrum Sketch

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candelabrum, by Anonymous, British, 18th century

Candelabrum

Anonymous, British, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum Designs, by Giovanna Benati, Italian, 1775 - 1800

Candelabrum Designs

Giovanna Benati, Italian, 1775 - 1800 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Iron candelabrum

Iron candelabrum

Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Candelabrum Representing the Chase

Candelabrum Representing the Chase

Artist not stated in the record · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 219 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 318 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 09:12 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.