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. 22 shown for “Miss L. E. M. Jones” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Alphabet book design (Letters C and K)
Miss L. E. M. Jones · ca. 1830
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott
Artist not stated in the record · 1928

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Eremocrinum albomarginatum (M.E. Jones) M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1976

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 27/6/98

Jewelry Elements
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–16th century

Justicia ovata E. Mey.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1993

Terracotta hydria (water jar)
Group of B.M. F 308 · ca. 340–330 BCE
Gentiana saponaria L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Oct 1893

Violin
Carlo Antonio Testore · 1737

Poa pratensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/11/37

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Astragalus trichopodus var. lonchus (M.E. Jones) Barneby
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1882

Saint John
Neroccio de' Landi · late 15th century
Malachra capitata (L.) L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1892

Basket of Flowers
Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Lemna minor L.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1894

View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant
Alfred Sisley · 1876

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
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. 322 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2990488 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 15:02 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.