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. 21 shown for “Oil lamp or bottle” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 10:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Oil lamp or bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Oil lamp from the Jones-Hall-Sims House
Unidentified · 1860-1900

Oil lamp or bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Oil Lamp
Artist not stated in the record

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

Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record

Glass oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd half of 1st century CE

Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record

Terracotta oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 40–80 CE

Oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record

Terracotta oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century CE

Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record

Terracotta oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1882-05-30

Terracotta oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1883-07-04

Hanging Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Oil-Wick Lamp Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1880-06-22

Enameled and Gilded Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

The Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Buffalo Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

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. 251 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. 268278 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 10:29 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.