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. 12 shown for “Lamp Bearer, Presumed Portrait of a Nobleman” — 20 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Lamp Bearer, Presumed Portrait of a Nobleman
Artist not stated in the record · Dated by inscription 1698

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

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Lamp Bearer, Presumed Portrait of Lady Bharamayi
Artist not stated in the record · Dated by inscription 1761

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Balachand · recto: ca. 1610–15; verso: dated 1541

The Sackville Children
John Hoppner · 1796

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)
Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun
'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35

A Cardinal's Procession
Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano) · 1621

Dish depicting The Death of Saul
Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–80
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. 20 matched · 20 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 04:54 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.