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. 15 shown for “Bosanquet Painter” — 43 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Bosanquet Painter · ca. 440–430 BCE

Spyridium phylicoides Reissek
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1958

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Bosanquet Painter · ca. 440–430 BCE

Cornus rugosa Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

Christ Healing the Blind
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Lilium philadelphicum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1948

Potentilla simplex Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1948

Desmodium canadense (L.) DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1961

Helianthemum canadense (L.) Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

Ceanothus ovatus var. pubescens S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1948

Diervilla lonicera Mill.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

Physocarpus intermedius (Rydb.) C.K. Schneid.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

Hesperostipa spartea (Trin.) Barkworth
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

Liriodendron tulipifera L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948

Equisetum x ferrissii Clute
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1948
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12902 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 2026-08-27 20:00 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.