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 “Mu'an Xingtao (Mokuan Shōtō)” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Halicoryne sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1971
Udotea orientalis A. Gepp & E. Gepp
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1935
Neomeris annulata Dickie
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 2000
Ulva flexuosa Wulfen
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1945
Thorea gaudichaudii C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1937
Yamadaella caenomyce (Decne.) I.A. Abbott
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Feb 2001
Thorea gaudichaudii C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1937
Caulerpa sertularioides f. longipes
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Feb 2001
Cladophora sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1951
Halicoryne wrightii Harv.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 2000
Ulva flexuosa Wulfen
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1945
Trentepohlia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Nov 1945
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 40 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 2026-08-27 08:39 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.