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 “Melissa officinalis L.” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1877

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record

Julie Le Brun (1780–1819) Looking in a Mirror
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1880

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

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1864

Angelica and Medoro
François Boucher · 1763

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1847

Miniature camelid effigy
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1896

Chuspa (coca bag)
Moche artist(s) · 650-850 CE

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1867

Belt
Artist not stated in the record · 200–700 CE

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1912

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1866

Noh Costume (Karaori) with Cypress Fans and Moonflower (Yūgao) Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–early 19th century

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record

The Three Ages of Humans
Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero) · ca. 1515

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1867

Pilate Washing His Hands
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663

Melissa officinalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1890
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. 87 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1291378 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 01:06 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.