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 “Design for a Clock, from "Six Tables Grecques Pendules"” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 15:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Design for a Clock, from "Six Tables Grecques Pendules"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Design for a Clock, from 'Disegni Diversi'
Giovanni Giardini · 1714 or 1750

Design For a Clock, pl. XXI from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"
Artist not stated in the record · 1719

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Design For a Clock, pl. XX from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"
Artist not stated in the record · 1719

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Design For a Clock, pl. XV from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"
Artist not stated in the record · 1719

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Design For a Clock, pl. XVII from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"
Artist not stated in the record · 1719

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Design For a Clock, pl. XIV from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"
Artist not stated in the record · 1719

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Design For a Clock, pl. XIII from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"
Artist not stated in the record · 1719

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design For a Clock, pl. XIX from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"
Artist not stated in the record · 1719

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design For a Clock, pl. XVII from "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet"
Artist not stated in the record · 1719

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Clock, plate 4, from Nouveaux livre de boites de pendulles de coqs et etuys de montres et autres necessaire au Orlogeurs
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · 1705–12

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Design for Table, Plate 3 from "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Close Helmet for the Tourney
Daniel Hopfer · dated 1552

Design for Table, Plate 2 from "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
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. 13561 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. 2252923 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-10 15:10 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.