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 “Pair of candlesticks” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of candlesticks
Jacques Demé · 1690–91
Pair of candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Pair of candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
One of a Pair of Candlesticks
Richard Hodd & Son, London, England, active. 1872 – ca. 1880 · 1878
One of a Pair of Traveling Candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1310
One of a Pair of Candlesticks
Richard Hodd & Son, London, England, active. 1872 – ca. 1880 · 1878
Pair of Candlesticks
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · early 19th century
Pair of candlesticks
Jacques-Pierre Marteau · 1775
Pair of candlesticks
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900
Pair of candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century
Pair of candlesticks
Vienna · 1730–35
Candlestick
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Pair of candlesticks
Charles Petit · 1700–1701
Candlestick (One of a Pair)
Volkstedt-Rudolstadt Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1762 · 18th century
Pair of candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80
Candlestick (One of a Pair)
Volkstedt-Rudolstadt Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1762 · 18th century
Pricket Candlestick with Birds, Vines, and Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · 1175–1200
Candlestick
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Pricket Candlestick with Birds, Vines, and Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · 1175–1200
Design for a Candlestick
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30
Pair of candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · 1695–96
Candelabrum
Edward Barnard & Sons, English · 1832
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. 9307 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. 2859784 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 01:48 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.