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 “Dish with Sailing-Ship Design” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:35 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.
Dish with Sailing-ship Design

Dish with Sailing-ship Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Ships, Venice, Italy, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Sketches of Ships, Venice, Italy

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · October 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Sailing-Ship Design

Dish with Sailing-Ship Design

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
A Sailing Ship, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

A Sailing Ship

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Sailing-Ship Design

Ewer with Sailing-Ship Design

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ship

Ship

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sailing Ships in a Bay, by Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830

Sailing Ships in a Bay

Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830 · 1810–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by The Art Crafts Shop

Dish

The Art Crafts Shop · ca. 1904

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Ship, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Ship

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Con Vois Hollandois, by Chez Basset, French

Con Vois Hollandois

Chez Basset, French

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 661–750

Public domainThe Met
Ships at sea, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Ships at sea

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Schooner, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Schooner, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1722–26

Public domainThe Met
A Bay with Ships, by Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830

A Bay with Ships

Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830 · 1810–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Steamers and Ships on a River, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Steamers and Ships on a River

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish in the shape of a leaf

Dish in the shape of a leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Sailing Ships, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Two Sailing Ships

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1846–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish Depicting Lady with a Parasol, by Cornelis Pronk

Dish Depicting Lady with a Parasol

Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1734–37

Public domainThe Met
Card with David and His Harp

Card with David and His Harp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

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. 815 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. 1676 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 2026-08-27 21:35 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.