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 “Cornus alba L.” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armor of the Dukes of Alba
Lucio Piccinino · ca. 1575–85

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record

Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo)
Luigi Crosio · 1870–71

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1906 to 21 Jul 1906

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1906

Lotus Flower Inlay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1901

The Man of Sorrows
Michele Giambono (Michele Giovanni Bono) · ca. 1430

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1909

Narcisa Barañano Gayoso de Goicoechea
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1805

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1907

The Translation of the Holy House of Loreto
Saturnino Gatti · ca. 1490

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1861

Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes
Donato de' Bardi · ca. 1425–30

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1883

Processional Crucifix
Pietro di Francesco Orioli · ca. 1480s

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1906

"Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Abu'l Hasan · recto: ca. 1610–15; verso ca. 1540

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1926

Cassone
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–80 (rebuilt, with extensive replacements)

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1900 to 25 Jul 1900

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792

Cornus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record
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. 36 matched · 24 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. 1297826 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-07 11:03 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.