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. 20 shown for “Taper holder” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Taper holder
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Wax jack owned by the Dennis Family
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Taper holder (one of a pair)
James Gould · stick 1733–34, bobêche 1812–13
Bouquet holder, cone shape with hook
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920
Bouquet holder, cone shape
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920
Wax-taper holder
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Bouquet holder, enamel vase and handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920
Miniature taperstick (one of a pair)
David Clayton · ca. 1720–30
Bouquet holder, enamel handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920
Bouquet holder, painted vignettes
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920
Taperstand (part of a set)
Asprey · 1851
Posey holder
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850
Taperstick
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
Folding spoon
Gavet Coutelier, France · 1809–19
Taperstick
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740
Etui with Writing and Grooming Instruments
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–80
Taperstick
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760
Wax jack
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740
Toothpick / match holder urn from Lyons Hall
Artist not stated in the record · 1930-1950
Wax jack
Robert Breading · 1808
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. 49 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 7779 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-02 17:46 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.