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. 16 shown for “Dish with Cypress Tree, Saz Leaves, and Roses” — 44 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dish with Cypress Tree, Saz Leaves, and Roses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–80

Dish with lid
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1780

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Dish with Sailing-Ship Design
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Study of Old Cypress Trees, Cypress Point
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · April 11, 1898
Iznik Ceramic Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Triomphe de Priape
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1740

Palampore
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Figure with an Oxcart and a Cypress Tree, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · January 9, 1885

Study for The Cypress Trees of Montezuma, Park of Chapultepec, Mexico
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1892

Leaf-Shaped Dessert Dish
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

Study, Old Cypress Tres, Cypress Point
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · April 11, 1898

Sidewall - sample
Artist not stated in the record · 1906–07

Grape Bunch-Shaped Covered Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Dish in Shape of a Silver Sauceboat Stand (One of a Pair)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · 1750–1752
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1593421 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 19:28 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.