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. 16 shown for “Model Sailing Boat Transporting a Mummy” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Model Sailing Boat Transporting a Mummy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1885 B.C.

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

Model boat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Boats at Étretat
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · August 1873

Travelling Boat being Rowed
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Patent Model, Life Boat
Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Model Paddling Boat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Fishermens' Sail Boats
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1872

Terracotta model of a Nile boat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Model Sailboat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Travelling Boat being Rowed
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Kitchen Tender being Rowed
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758
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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1782582 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:57 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.