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 “Design for a Jardiniere and Candelabrum” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Design for a Jardiniere and Candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

Candelabrum
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · after 1846

Design for a Jardiniere
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

Jardinière
Union Porcelain Works · 1876

Drawing for a candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Design for a Candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · 1520–50

Spoon holder
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1878–81

Design for a Jardinière
Vieillard & Cie., active Bordeaux, France 1845 – ca. 1895 · 1875–85

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · 1791

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Censer and Candelabrum Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Candelabrum
Anna M. de Pool · ca. 1894

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Design for a Candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Settee (one of a pair)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Design for a Gas Lamp and Candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Design for a Candelabrum
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · late 18th century

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques
Unknown · early 16th century
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. 21590 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2813793 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 2026-09-03 10:41 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.