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. 22 shown for “Charles Roth” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Clarinet in B-flat
Charles Roth · 1840–45
Gaillona rosea (Roth) A. Athanasiadis
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1974

Charles I, from the English Monarchs series
Jean Dassier · 1731–32
Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Roth
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1945

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1757
Cladophora rupestris (Roth) Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1927

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)
Vincennes Manufactory · 1754
Sporobolus pumilus (Roth) P.M. Peterson & Saarela
Artist not stated in the record · 1904

Summer (Ceres)
Doccia Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1760–70
Sporobolus pumilus (Roth) P.M. Peterson & Saarela
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1912

Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an ọ́bà)
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · Mid-16th–late 17th century

Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1945

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)
Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1753

Agrostis gigantea Roth
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1952

Putti with a Medallion
Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Agrostis gigantea Roth
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1921

Putti with a Medallion
Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen
Scagelothamnion turneri (Mert. ex Roth) A. Athanasiadis
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1974

In the Studio
Alfred Stevens · 1888

Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth
Artist not stated in the record · 1955
Bromus rigidus Roth
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
Ulva clathrata (Roth) C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1967
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. 49 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 139341 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 2026-09-02 15:22 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.