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 “Mentha x gentilis L.” — 53 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fork (one of a set)
Antonio Gentili (Antonio da Faenza) · probably 19th or early 20th century

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1867

Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1926

Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1926

The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1896

Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 5/9/4

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1910

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis
Italian (Umbrian) Painter

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1914

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1910

Design for a Wall Tomb
Anonymous, Central-Italian, 16th century · ca. 1524

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1895

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1869 to Sep 1869

Essempio di recammi, page 25 (verso)
Giovanni Antonio Tagliente · 1530

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1904

Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza
Lorenzo Lotto · 1547

Mentha x gentilis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1942
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 1903270 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 2026-09-02 07:09 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.