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 “Lorandersonia spathulata (L.C. Anderson) et al.” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bowl with a Majlis Scene by a Pond
Abu Zayd al-Kashani · dated 582 AH/1186 CE

Lorandersonia spathulata (L.C. Anderson) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1914

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Lorandersonia spathulata (L.C. Anderson) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1914

Pilgrim Flask
Bernard Palissy · probably 1556–67

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1928

Tupu (pin)
Wari or Inca artist(s) · Before the 16th century

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.
Artist not stated in the record

Gray Weather, Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat · ca. 1886–88

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1897

The Capture of Carthage
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1924

A Woman Reading
Camille Corot · 1869 and 1870

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

Side panel of a writing box (decorated with Medusa mask)
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · cast 16th century

Lorandersonia baileyi (Wooton & Standl.) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

Front panel of a writing box (decorated with centaurs and nymphs)
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · cast 16th century

Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1900

Medusa mask
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · cast 16th century

Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1910

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary
Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter · ca. 1515–20

Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1897

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Lorandersonia linifolia (S.W. Greene) et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1894
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. 143 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 192259 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 05:48 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.