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. 12 shown for “Demavendia pastinacifolia (Boiss. & Hausskn.) Pimenov” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 21:47 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Demavendia pastinacifolia (Boiss. & Hausskn.) Pimenov
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1937

Gypsophila reuteri (Boiss. & Hausskn.) F.N. Williams
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1884

Teucrium melissoides Boiss. & Hausskn. in Boiss.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1957 to 9 Aug 1957

Teucrium melissoides Boiss. & Hausskn. in Boiss.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1948 to 16 Jul 1948

Teucrium melissoides Boiss. & Hausskn. in Boiss.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1867

Lactuca cataonica Boiss. & Hausskn.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1890

Scabiosa macrochaeta Boiss. & Hausskn.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1948

Verbascum infidelium Boiss. & Hausskn.
Artist not stated in the record · 1872

Tordylium persicum Boiss. & Hausskn.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 1940

Scabiosa flavida Boiss. & Hausskn.
Artist not stated in the record · -- --- 188-

Scabiosa flavida Boiss. & Hausskn.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1940

Linum collinum (Boiss.) Hausskn.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1909
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 161 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 2026-09-09 21:47 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.