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. 22 shown for “Sconces” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:10 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
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
Sconces
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20
Design for Two Andirons and Sconce of Gilt Bronze
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777–90
Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1787–88
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
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
Monumental mirror sconce (one of a pair)
Peter Rahm · 1717–18
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
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)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
Unterschiedlich Augspurgische Goldschmidts Arbeit, "Large Frame Design, Two Chairs and Wall Sconces", Plate 6
Abraham Drentwet, German, 1647 – 1727 · 1721–40
Five lamp shades
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1907
Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
Designs for Wall Lights (Wall Sconces)
André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732 · ca. 1715
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. 177 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 73 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 05:10 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.