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 “Cyclosorus x palmeri (W.H. Wagner) W.H. Wagner” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:16 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 Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Cyclosorus x palmeri (W.H. Wagner) W.H. Wagner
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1925

Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50)
Hans Wagner the Elder · dated 1539

Cyclosorus exindusiatus (W.H. Wagner) W.H. Wagner
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1909

Richard Wagner (1805–1864)
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Cyclosorus cataractorum W.H. Wagner & Grether
Artist not stated in the record

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Cyclosorus maemonensis W.H. Wagner & Grether
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1945

Woman's Dress
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–early 16th century

Cyclosorus maemonensis W.H. Wagner & Grether
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Feb 2010

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Christella boydiae (D.C. Eaton) Holttum
Artist not stated in the record

Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910)
Gustave Courbet · ca. 1852–57

Christella boydiae (D.C. Eaton) Holttum
Artist not stated in the record

Neckless jar with complex scene
Paracas artist(s) · 350 BCE–60 CE

Christella wailele (Flynn) D.D. Palmer
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1994

Pair of earflare frontals
Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE

Christella boydiae (D.C. Eaton) Holttum
Artist not stated in the record · -- --- 188-

Jo, La Belle Irlandaise
Gustave Courbet · 1865–66

Ambrosia x intergradiens W.H. Wagner
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1957

Christ Asleep during the Tempest
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1853

Ambrosia x intergradiens W.H. Wagner
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1957

The Calm Sea
Gustave Courbet · 1869

Ambrosia x intergradiens W.H. Wagner
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1957
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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 660727 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 04:16 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.