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. 21 shown for “Candlestick Base” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:42 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.
Candlestick Base

Candlestick Base

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tripod Candlestick Base, by Unknown

Design for a Tripod Candlestick Base

Unknown · 1520–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Cornelius Kierstede

Candlestick

Cornelius Kierstede · ca. 1705

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick

Design for a Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Edward Winslow

Candlestick

Edward Winslow · ca. 1720

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick

Design for a Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Armed Candelabra, by George Eadon & Company, Sheffield, England

Two-Armed Candelabra

George Eadon & Company, Sheffield, England · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Candlestick, by Italian, Italian, possibly Roman

Design for a Candlestick

Italian, Italian, possibly Roman · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Adrian Bancker

Candlestick

Adrian Bancker · 1735–50

Public domainThe Met
Candlestick

Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · 1811–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Adrian Bancker

Candlestick

Adrian Bancker · 1735–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick

Design for a Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick

Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Candlestick, by Louwijs Victorsz

Candlestick

Louwijs Victorsz · 1688–1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Samuel Siervent

Candlestick

Samuel Siervent · 1762–63

Public domainThe Met
Candlestick and drip pan

Candlestick and drip pan

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Candlestick

Design for a Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick with octagonal base (one of a pair), by Georg Schäffer

Candlestick with octagonal base (one of a pair)

Georg Schäffer · 1757–63

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1800–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick with octagonal base (one of a pair), by Georg Schäffer

Candlestick with octagonal base (one of a pair)

Georg Schäffer · 1757–63

Public domainThe Met
Candlestick Representting Autumn, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Candlestick Representting Autumn

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

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. 277 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 54415 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-28 23:42 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.