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 “Erica mediterranea L.” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Erica Fulgida
Pierre Joseph Redouté · 1813

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1890

Silver Bucket
Artist not stated in the record · 600s

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1865

Ewer of Zenobius
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 5/4/96

Shield
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jan 1850 to 25 May 1850

Vessel terminating in the head of a ram
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1897

Music-Making Angels
Albrecht Dürer · 1521

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/2/32

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1890

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Feb 1907

Rhyton in the form of a Saiga antelope head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th–6th century CE

Erica mediterranea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1888

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a ram
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE
Ericaria mediterranea (Sauvageau) Molinari & Guiry
Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1964

The Collector of Prints
Edgar Degas · 1866
Ericaria mediterranea (Sauvageau) Molinari & Guiry
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1991
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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1291963 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-02 08:12 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.