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 “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

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.
Engraved Lamp Stand with a Cylindrical Body

Engraved Lamp Stand with a Cylindrical Body

Artist not stated in the record · probably late 16th or early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea Kettle and Stand, by William Fawdery, British, active 1698 – 1727

Tea Kettle and Stand

William Fawdery, British, active 1698 – 1727 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern

Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil Lamp, by Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822

Design for an Oil Lamp

Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraved Lamp Stand with Interlocking Circles

Engraved Lamp Stand with Interlocking Circles

Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Urn on a Stand, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for an Urn on a Stand

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamp Stand, by Abdullah Haidar al-Husaini

Lamp Stand

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil Lamp, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for an Oil Lamp

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rothschild lamp, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Rothschild lamp

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
Beaker

Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teakettle, by John C. Moore

Teakettle

John C. Moore · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop

Lamp base from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraved Lamp Stand with Cartouches and Medallions

Engraved Lamp Stand with Cartouches and Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Footed Beaker

Footed Beaker

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

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

Public domainThe Met
One of a Pair of Tea Caddies, by Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728

One of a Pair of Tea Caddies

Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trencher Salt, by Bartholomew Le Roux

Trencher Salt

Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Hot Water Urn, by Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s

Hot Water Urn

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trencher Salt, by Bartholomew Le Roux

Trencher Salt

Bartholomew Le Roux · 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Tea Kettle and Stand, by Dominick and Haff, New York, New York, 1872 – 1928

Tea Kettle and Stand

Dominick and Haff, New York, New York, 1872 – 1928 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

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

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
Cylindrical Box (Pyxis)

Cylindrical Box (Pyxis)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

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. 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.