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 “Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King” — 63 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1942

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1905

The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1905

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1902

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1894

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1914

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1904

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1910

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1899

Bowl with Enthroned Figure and Horsemen
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1894

Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1897

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1745–47

Aquilegia flavescens S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 3 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. 7467638 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 18:40 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.