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. 12 shown for “Pricker (Cocking Pin)” — 19 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Pricker (Cocking Pin)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–19th century

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 3, Belt Model, Serial no. 156, with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1838

Pair of Pellet-Lock Pistols with Case with Accessories
Charles Moore · ca. 1825

Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Watch in the form of a Lesser George
Nicholas Vallin · ca. 1600

Watch
Pierre Vernede · ca. 1650

Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial
Jan Jansen Bockeltz · ca. 1605–10

Chuspa (coca bag)
Moche artist(s) · 650-850 CE

Satyr
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1510–ca. 1520

Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy
Paullus Schiller · ca. 1620–30

Watch
James Vautrollier · ca. 1620–25
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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:29 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.