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. 17 shown for “Pair of candlestands” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Candlestand
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1780
peg, candlestand
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Pair of candlestands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710
Three Gueridons (Candlestands) Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1703
Candlestand (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
Table candlestand
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE
Candlestand Design
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95
Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century
Three Gueridons (Candlestands) Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1703
Three Gueridons (Candlestands) Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1703
Ratcheted Candlestand
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Three Gueridons (Candlestands) Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1703
Three Gueridons (Candlestands) Designs
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1703
Vase, Candlestand, and Ornament Design
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95
Design for a candlestand
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1650
LA SALLE DU BAL
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1680–1703
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. 8845 matched · 24 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2859631 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 06:56 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.