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. 24 shown for “Clock with Stand” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:59 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.
Clock, by Dubuc

Clock

Dubuc · 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Clock with Stand

Clock with Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock, by Simon Willard

Clock

Simon Willard · 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Funffte Ausgab seiner vorhabenden werckes...Unterschiedliche Neu Inventirte Verkleiden Zu Modernen und Astonmischen Perpendicul-Uhren..., by Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741

Funffte Ausgab seiner vorhabenden werckes...Unterschiedliche Neu Inventirte Verkleiden Zu Modernen und Astonmischen Perpendicul-Uhren...

Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock

Clock

Artist not stated in the record · 1792–1819

Public domainThe Met
Funffte Ausgab seiner vorhabenden werckes...Unterschiedliche Neu Inventirte Verkleiden Zu Modernen und Astonmischen Perpendicul-Uhren..., by Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741

Funffte Ausgab seiner vorhabenden werckes...Unterschiedliche Neu Inventirte Verkleiden Zu Modernen und Astonmischen Perpendicul-Uhren...

Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock, by Jean-Baptiste Lepaute

Clock

Jean-Baptiste Lepaute · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Funffte Ausgab seiner vorhabenden werckes...Unterschiedliche Neuinventirte Verkleiden Zu Modernen und Astonmischen Perpendicul-Uhren..., by Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741

Funffte Ausgab seiner vorhabenden werckes...Unterschiedliche Neuinventirte Verkleiden Zu Modernen und Astonmischen Perpendicul-Uhren...

Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick with a Clock, by Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819

Design for a Candlestick with a Clock

Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand, by William Sprats

Stand

William Sprats · 1778–81

Public domainThe Met
Standing Clock or Barometer Mount Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Standing Clock or Barometer Mount Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock, by David Roentgen

Clock

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Standing Clock or Barometer Mount Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Standing Clock or Barometer Mount Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Clock

Design for a Clock

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Mantel clock

Mantel clock

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tall Clock, by Thomas Seymour

Tall Clock

Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

Public domainThe Met
Design for clock, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for clock

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock

Clock

Artist not stated in the record · probably second quarter 17th century, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Design for a clock, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for a clock

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock, by Julien Le Roy

Mantel clock

Julien Le Roy · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Ersten Ausgab seines vorhabenden Wercks, by Johann August Corvinus, German, 1683–1738

Ersten Ausgab seines vorhabenden Wercks

Johann August Corvinus, German, 1683–1738 · 1728–31

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 6814 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 257034 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-01 18:59 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.