OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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. 16 shown for “Clock used by the Citizen's Savings and Trust Company” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:44 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Longcase clock with calendar, by Joseph Knibb

Longcase clock with calendar

Joseph Knibb · ca. 1680–85

Public domainThe Met
Clock used by the Citizen's Savings and Trust Company

Clock used by the Citizen's Savings and Trust Company

Artist not stated in the record · 1920-2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock, by J. and J. G. Low Art Tile Works

Clock

J. and J. G. Low Art Tile Works · ca. 1882–85

Public domainThe Met
Design for main entrance door for the Bankers' Trust Company, New York, NY, by Christian Francis Rosborg, 1881 – 1953

Design for main entrance door for the Bankers' Trust Company, New York, NY

Christian Francis Rosborg, 1881 – 1953 · 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature longcase clock with calendar, by Daniel Quare

Miniature longcase clock with calendar

Daniel Quare · ca. 1720–25

Public domainThe Met
Dividend check from Freedman's Savings and Trust Company

Dividend check from Freedman's Savings and Trust Company

Artist not stated in the record · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror clock, by Master CR

Mirror clock

Master CR · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead

Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead

Artist not stated in the record · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astronomical table clock, by Jeremias Metzger

Astronomical table clock

Jeremias Metzger · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hooded wall clock with calendar, by Ahasuerus I Fromanteel

Hooded wall clock with calendar

Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial, by Jan Jansen Bockeltz

Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial

Jan Jansen Bockeltz · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Girdle with Coins and Medallions

Girdle with Coins and Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 583, reassembled after discovery

Public domainThe Met
Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy, by Paullus Schiller

Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy

Paullus Schiller · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47), by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

Public domainThe Met
Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553), by Kunz Lochner

Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553)

Kunz Lochner · dated 1548

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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. 103 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 2142872 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 18:44 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.