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. 23 shown for “Candle Bracket” — 51 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:12 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Candle Bracket

Candle Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candle Bracket

Design for a Candle Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of two-light wall brackets

Pair of two-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Mirror with candle brackets

Mirror with candle brackets

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of two-light wall brackets

Pair of two-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candle Bracket

Design for a Candle Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of four three-light wall brackets

Set of four three-light wall brackets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candle Bracket

Design for a Candle Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table or bracket clock with calendar, by Daniel Delander

Table or bracket clock with calendar

Daniel Delander · probably ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Design for a wall of a ballroom, by Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814

Design for a wall of a ballroom

Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick

Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Pillar strip with a candle bracket, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Pillar strip with a candle bracket

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick

Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · 15th or 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Candle bracket

Candle bracket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three-branch wall light (one of a pair) (bras de lumière)

Three-branch wall light (one of a pair) (bras de lumière)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Design for a carved mirror frame

Design for a carved mirror frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamber Organ, by Samuel Green

Chamber Organ

Samuel Green · ca. 1790–96

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Altar Candlesticks and Candle Brackets

Designs for Altar Candlesticks and Candle Brackets

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three-branch wall light (one of a pair) (bras de lumière)

Three-branch wall light (one of a pair) (bras de lumière)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation for a Salon with Mantelpiece, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Wall Elevation for a Salon with Mantelpiece

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Jacopo Bellini

Madonna and Child

Jacopo Bellini · probably 1440s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a fireplace

Design for a fireplace

Artist not stated in the record · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section of an Ornamental Panel

Section of an Ornamental Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2269 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-04 07:12 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.