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. 22 shown for “Sanctuary lamp (Cesendello)” — 55 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 13:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sanctuary lamp (Cesendello)
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th or early 16th century

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

Sanctuary lamp
Johannes I. Mayr · 1670–73

Sanctuary Lamp, from "Dis
Artist not stated in the record · 1714

Lamp (Cesendello)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

Limestone saucer lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE ?

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

Sanctuary lamp
Gennaro Romanelli · after 1839

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

Sanctuary lamp
Juan Antonio Dominguez · first half 18th century

Design for a Sanctuary Lamp
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

Limestone lamp in the shape of a bull’s head
Artist not stated in the record · 30 BCE–CE 330

Design for an Altar, plate 2 of "Nuove Inventioni d'Ornament..."
Filippo Passarini, 1636–1698 · 1698

Bronze lamp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Album of Ecclesiastical Metalwork Designs
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1748

Bronze saucer-shaped lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 2024

Limestone lamp in the shape of a bull’s head
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE
Ficus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Apr 1994

Limestone altar
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Terracotta wall bracket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050–950 BCE
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 6882 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 13:32 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.