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. 21 shown for “Sconce (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sconce (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 1666–99
Lamps w/ sconces, wall
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Design for Two Andirons and Sconce of Gilt Bronze
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777–90
Wall sconce (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1755
Wall Sconce Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94
Wall sconce (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1755
Wall Sconce Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94
Sconce (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
Three Designs for Wall Sconces in the Chinese Taste, Plate 48 in One Hundred and Fifty New Designs
Thomas Johnson, English, 1714–1778 · 1756–57
Design for Sconce, Hound
William Hunt Diederich, American, b. Hungary, 1884–1953 · ca. 1920
Sconce (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720
Wall Sconce Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94
Wall Sconce Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94
Monumental mirror sconce (one of a pair)
Peter Rahm · 1717–18
Wall Sconce Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94
Monumental mirror sconce (one of a pair)
Peter Rahm · 1717–18
Designs for Torcheres, a Lectern, and a Sconce
Lange, active 1730 – 1750 · mid- 18th century
Sconce (one of a pair)
Joseph Ward · 1700–1701
Sconce
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Sconce (one of a pair)
Joseph Ward · 1700–1701
socket
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 4298 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. 3969319 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-06 06:33 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.