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 a Cylindrical Body” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:20 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 a Cylindrical Body
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 16th or early 17th century

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

Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE

Design for an Oil Lamp
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · late 18th century

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

Design for an Urn on a Stand
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825

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

Design for an Oil Lamp
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1810

Rothschild lamp
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 1767

Teakettle
John C. Moore · 1850

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

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

Footed Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

One of a Pair of Tea Caddies
Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716

Trencher Salt
Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710

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

Trencher Salt
Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710

Tea Kettle and Stand
Dominick and Haff, New York, New York, 1872 – 1928 · 1881

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

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

Cylindrical Box (Pyxis)
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902
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. 259 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. 2057399 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 08:20 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.