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. 19 shown for “Digby Scott” — 47 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Coffee Pot on Stand (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1805

Grimmia maritima Turner & R. Scott
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1974

Teapot (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1805
Corallina officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1938 to 4 Aug 1938

Sugar Bowl (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1804
Wildemania miniata (C. Agardh) Foslie
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1938 to 4 Aug 1938

Hot Water Urn (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1804

D. Kenelmvs Digbi Egves
Dyck, Anthony van

Milk Jug (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1804

Rhynchospora fusca (L.) W.T. Aiton
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1926

Tray with arms of William Burrell (1791–1847)
Digby Scott · 1806/7

Eriophorum viridicarinatum (Englem.) Fernald
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1926

The Duke of Buckingham Tea and Coffee Service
Digby Scott · 1804/05

Sphagnum centrale C.E.O. Jensen
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1974

Dicranum ontariense W. L. Peterson
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1974

Zygodon viridissimus (Dicks.) Brid.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1974

Trichophorum alpinum (L.) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1926

Carex echinata Murray subsp. echinata
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1926

Parthenocissus vitacea (Knerr) Hitchc.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1924
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 20682 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-28 01:01 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.