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 wall lights” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 18:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761
Lamps w/ sconces, wall
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Pair of wall lights
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60
Candlestick
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Pair of wall lights
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1765–68
Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1840
Wall light (one of a pair)
Vincennes Manufactory · birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750
Arabesque with griffins
Arthur & Robert · 1789
Arabesque with lions
Arthur & Robert · ca. 1790
Charles II Wall Light with the Arms of the Earls of Lonsdale
Robert Smythier · ca. 1670
Bandbox
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE
Dado
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–25
Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century
Photographic print of two couples standing outdoors
Unidentified · ca. 1921
Pair of two-light wall brackets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
Wall Fountain
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775
Pair of three-light wall brackets
Artist not stated in the record · 1745–49
Wall Elevation, Alexander Palace, Tsarkoie-Selo, Russia
Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian, 1744 - 1817 · 1792–96
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE
Designs for Wall Lights (Wall Sconces)
André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732 · ca. 1715
Pair of candlesticks
Jacques Demé · 1690–91
Design for Four Walls of a Salon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90
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. 4651 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2875785 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-30 18:50 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.