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 “Coronilla varia L.” — 60 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1330s

Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1949

Two-Handed Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450
Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1903

Earflare
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE
Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1890

Earflare
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1943

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627

Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1950

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 187

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1891

Altar to the Sun Warrior
Mexico Nahua artist(s) · 1450-1521 CE

Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1890

Barnyard Scene
Anthonie van Borssom · ca. 1650–55

Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record

Dirham of Ghiyath al-Din Kai Khusrau II (r. 1239–46); Astrological Device (Sun-Lion)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 638 AH/1240–41 CE

Coronilla varia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1911

The firework display called 'Girandola' at the Castello Sant'Angelo in Rome
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1579

Coronilla varia 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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 1 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. 1292879 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 2026-09-01 15:34 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.