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. 24 shown for “Chandelier” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:59 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.
Chandelier

Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Chandelier Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Chandelier Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier, by Henry N. Hooper and Company

Chandelier

Henry N. Hooper and Company · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Two Chandelier Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Chandelier Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier, by Mitchell, Vance & Co.

Chandelier

Mitchell, Vance & Co. · 1868–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier, by John Gumley

Chandelier

John Gumley · ca. 1710–15

Public domainThe Met
Two Chandelier Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Chandelier Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier, by Clark, Coit and Cargill

Chandelier

Clark, Coit and Cargill · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Two Chandelier Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Chandelier Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier

Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1720

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier

Chandelier

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier

Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–80

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Chandelier

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier

Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · 19th or 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Turtleback Tile Chandelier

Turtleback Tile Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier

Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier d'Eglise (Church Chandelier), plate 81, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Chandelier d'Eglise (Church Chandelier), plate 81, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1695–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier

Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Projet de grand Chandelier à branche pour le Roy., Chandelier à cinq branches avec un dragon, 2nd Plate, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet de grand Chandelier à branche pour le Roy., Chandelier à cinq branches avec un dragon, 2nd Plate

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier

Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier Design, by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Chandelier Design

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chandelier

Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–85

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier Design (Title Page Before Lettering), by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Chandelier Design (Title Page Before Lettering)

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94

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. 244 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. 202 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 01:59 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.