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. 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

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.
Model Sailing Boat Transporting a Mummy

Model Sailing Boat Transporting a Mummy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1885 B.C.

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
Model boat

Model boat

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

Public domainThe Met
Boats at Étretat, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Boats at Étretat

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · August 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Travelling Boat being Rowed

Travelling Boat being Rowed

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

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model, Life Boat

Patent Model, Life Boat

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Paddling Boat

Model Paddling Boat

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

Public domainThe Met
Fishermens' Sail Boats, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Fishermens' Sail Boats

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta model of a Nile boat

Terracotta model of a Nile boat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Model Sailboat

Model Sailboat

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

Public domainThe Met
Travelling Boat being Rowed

Travelling Boat being Rowed

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

Public domainThe Met
Kitchen Tender being Rowed

Kitchen Tender being Rowed

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

Public domainThe Met
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Public domainThe Met
Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

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. 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.