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 “Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE

Tea Kettle and Stand
William Fawdery, British, active 1698 – 1727 · 1711

Engraved Lamp Stand with Interlocking Circles
Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

Hot Water Urn
Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s · 1770–1771

Teakettle, lamp, and table
Simon Pantin I · 1724–25

Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

Lamp Stand
Abdullah Haidar al-Husaini · 1027–29 AH/1617–18 CE

Tobacco box
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Engraved Lamp Stand with a Cylindrical Body
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 16th or early 17th century

Coffee-pot and Stand from
Artist not stated in the record · 1714

Engraved Lamp Stand with Cartouches and Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880

Teakettle
John C. Moore · 1850

Design for a Comb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Terracotta oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 150–225 CE

Shawl
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Plaque with the Pentecost
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

Pair of Butter Lamps
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1910

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Mosque Lamp for the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al-'Ala'i al-Bunduqdar
Artist not stated in the record · shortly after 1285

The Third Wise Virgin
Martin Schongauer, German, 1450–1491 · ca. 1490
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. 147 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. 451720 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 08:04 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.