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. 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

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.
Priming Flask with Sundial and Compass

Priming Flask with Sundial and Compass

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
sundial compass

sundial compass

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Powder Flask with Bullet Box, Clock, Compass, and Sundial

Powder Flask with Bullet Box, Clock, Compass, and Sundial

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–1600

Public domainThe Met
sundial compass

sundial compass

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Priming Flask

Priming Flask

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sundial compass

Sundial compass

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Priming Flask

Priming Flask

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

Public domainThe Met
Traveling sundial and compass

Traveling sundial and compass

Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860

Public domainThe Met
Portable Equatorial, by Jacob Emanuel Laminit, German, 1719–1760

Portable Equatorial

Jacob Emanuel Laminit, German, 1719–1760 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portable horizontal sundial, by Jacques Lucas

Portable horizontal sundial

Jacques Lucas · probably before 1681

Public domainThe Met
Portable Diptych Sundial Signed L.S., by L. S.

Portable Diptych Sundial Signed L.S.

L. S. · 1518

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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)

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

Public domainThe Met
Wheellock Spanner with Priming Flask and Screwdriver, by Daniel Sadeler

Wheellock Spanner with Priming Flask and Screwdriver

Daniel Sadeler · ca. 1610–30

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Wheellock Pistols with Matching Priming Flask/Spanner, by Etienne Delaune

Pair of Wheellock Pistols with Matching Priming Flask/Spanner

Etienne Delaune · ca. 1570–80

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
Priming Flask

Priming Flask

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

Public domainThe Met
Priming Flask

Priming Flask

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

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. 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.