OpenTwo 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. 23 shown for “Lantern for a Lamp” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lantern for a Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century
Lampe
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748
Lantern
M'Cord & Shiner · 1825–31
Lampe
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748
Teakettle, lamp, and table
Simon Pantin I · 1724–25
Lampe
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748
Rothschild lamp
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20
Lampe
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748
Ceramic Lantern
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century
Oil lantern used by oysterman Ira Wright
R. E. Deitz Company, American, founded 1840 · ca. 1957
Terracotta lantern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE
Grande Lampe d'Eglise d'une forme nouvelle tenus par trois Cherubins
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796
Marble statuette of a slave boy with a lantern
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE
"Un des cotes du Pavillon orchestre dans le Jardin des Tuileries, en Juillet 1838"
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838
Sanctuary lamp (Cesendello)
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th or early 16th century
Lampes
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748
Lantern clock
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1685
lantern, magic
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
Hanging Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century
Lantern
Artist not stated in the record · 1860
Teakettle and spirit lamp with stand
Paul de Lamerie · 1744/45
Foot Warmer and Lantern Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1853
Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE
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. 663 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2074190 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 11:52 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.