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 “Malanea sarmentosa f. tomentosa Steyerm.” — 40 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Malanea sarmentosa f. tomentosa Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1944

Malanea sarmentosa f. tomentosa Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Sep 1944

Malanea sarmentosa f. tomentosa Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1972 to 23 May 1972

Malanea sarmentosa f. tomentosa Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1985

Malanea sarmentosa f. sparsipilosa Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1922 to 6 Oct 1922

Malanea sarmentosa f. sparsipilosa Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1987

Malanea sarmentosa f. sparsipilosa Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1938 to 17 Feb 1938

Malanea sarmentosa Aubl. f. sarmentosa
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1923 to 22 Jul 1923

Malanea sarmentosa Aubl.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1992

Malanea sarmentosa Aubl.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1988

Malanea macrophylla f. bahiensis (Müll. Arg.) Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 1977

Malanea macrophylla f. cuneata Steyerm.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1927
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. 668478 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-08 19:40 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.