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 “H. P. Sinclaire and Company” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:48 UTC · fetched live for this request

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.

Vase

H. P. Sinclaire and Company · 1904–5

Public domainThe Met

Temperance Society Membership Certificate by Thomas Sinclair

Artist not stated in the record · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Decanter

H. P. Sinclaire and Company · 1904–7

Public domainThe Met

Knema kinabaluensis J. Sinclair

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Great Indian Fruit Bat

Bhawani Das · ca. 1777–82

Public domainThe Met

Goniothalamus montanus J. Sinclair

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met

Alphonsea kinabaluensis J. Sinclair

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Group of 266 Stereograph Views of the 1855 and/or 1867 Universal Expositions in Paris, France]

M. Leon · 1850s–1910s

Public domainThe Met

Thomas Alexander Scott

Thomas Sinclair Lithography Company, active 1830 - 1870 · c. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

English Horn

H. Grenser · before 1807

Public domainThe Met

Fashions for Spring and Summer, 1865

Thomas Sinclair Lithography Company, active 1830 - 1870 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

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

Alphonsea kinabaluensis J. Sinclair

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Colt Model 1862 Police Revolver, serial no. 38549

Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company · ca. 1868

Public domainThe Met

Knema percoriacea J. Sinclair

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)

Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900

Public domainThe Met

Bromelia pinguin L.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod

Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893

Public domainThe Met

Fanny Elssler

Thomas Sinclair Lithography Company, active 1830 - 1870 · c. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Pitcher

Charles Cartlidge and Company · ca. 1848–56

Public domainThe Met

Anaxagorea borneensis (Becc.) J. Sinclair

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Goa Stone and Gold Case

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

Public domainThe Met

Knema kinabaluensis J. Sinclair

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1982

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. 874 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2612075 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 13:48 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.