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. 12 shown for “Pricket Candlestick with Birds, Vines, and Leaves” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Pricket Candlestick with Birds, Vines, and Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · 1175–1200

Pricket Candlestick with Birds, Vines, and Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · 1175–1200
Frieze with Acanthus Vines, Birds, Crosses, and a Human Face
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Dragon Wrapped around Saz Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–70

Work Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1615–18

Pair of candlesticks (part of a set)
Nicolas François Foulon · late 17th–early 18th century

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Diverses Pieces de Serruriers, page 8 (recto)
Jean Berain · ca. 1663

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Altar candlestick with busts in relief of Saints Peter and Paul (one of a pair)
Vincenzo Grandi · mid-16th century

Altar candlestick with busts in relief of Saints Peter and Paul (one of a pair)
Vincenzo Grandi · mid-16th century
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. 129 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 04:28 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.