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. 18 shown for “Priming Flask with Sundial and Compass” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Priming Flask with Sundial and Compass
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

sundial compass
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Powder Flask with Bullet Box, Clock, Compass, and Sundial
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–1600

sundial compass
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 18th century

Priming Flask
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Sundial compass
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Priming Flask
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Traveling sundial and compass
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-18th century

Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860

Portable Equatorial
Jacob Emanuel Laminit, German, 1719–1760 · 1748

Portable horizontal sundial
Jacques Lucas · probably before 1681
Portable Diptych Sundial Signed L.S.
L. S. · 1518

Priming Flask Bearing the Monograms and Arms of the Prince-Elector August I of Saxony (reigned 1553–86) and Anna of Denmark (reigned 1553–85)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Wheellock Spanner with Priming Flask and Screwdriver
Daniel Sadeler · ca. 1610–30

Pair of Wheellock Pistols with Matching Priming Flask/Spanner
Etienne Delaune · ca. 1570–80

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

Priming Flask
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Priming Flask
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century
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. 35 matched · 24 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. 1522366 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 08:17 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.