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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dish with Sailing-ship Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Sketches of Ships, Venice, Italy
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · October 1872

Dish with Sailing-Ship Design
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

A Sailing Ship
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1780
Ewer with Sailing-Ship Design
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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

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

Sailing Ships in a Bay
Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830 · 1810–1825

Dish
The Art Crafts Shop · ca. 1904

Sketchbook Page: Ship
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

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

Con Vois Hollandois
Chez Basset, French

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 661–750

Ships at sea
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1884

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

Schooner, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1860

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1722–26

A Bay with Ships
Lodewijk Gilles Haccou, Dutch, 1792 - 1830 · 1810–1825

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Steamers and Ships on a River
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · ca. 1860

Dish in the shape of a leaf
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Two Sailing Ships
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1846–60

Dish Depicting Lady with a Parasol
Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1734–37

Card with David and His Harp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890
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.