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 “Relief of Women in a Boat” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:19 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.
Relief of Women in a Boat

Relief of Women in a Boat

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for clock, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for clock

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller), by Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867

Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller)

Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · 1817–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece

Design for a Chimneypiece

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sauce boat

Sauce boat

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Sporting Boat

Model Sporting Boat

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

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Men and Women Unloading a Fishing Dory, Cullercoats, England, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Men and Women Unloading a Fishing Dory, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1643

Public domainThe Met
Two Women Lashed to a Boat's Mast, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Two Women Lashed to a Boat's Mast

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory decorative plaque

Ivory decorative plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tusk, by Kongo artist

Tusk

Kongo artist · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Figures and a Boat, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Figures and a Boat, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1890–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model boat

Model boat

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

Public domainThe Met
Femme dressée sur un piédestal orné de bas-reliefs (Woman Standing on a Pedestal Decorated with Bas-Reliefs)

Femme dressée sur un piédestal orné de bas-reliefs (Woman Standing on a Pedestal Decorated with Bas-Reliefs)

Artist not stated in the record · 1768, published 1770

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. 33904 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 7484468 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 05:19 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.