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 “Neolitsea cambodiana var. glabra C.K. Allen” — 40 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Neolitsea cambodiana var. glabra C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1932

Neolitsea ellipsoidea C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1934

Neolitsea homilantha C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record

Neolitsea ellipsoidea C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1941

Neolitsea ellipsoidea C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 1932 to 1933

Neolitsea merrilliana C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · May 1927 to Jul 1927

Neolitsea ellipsoidea C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 1932 to 1933

Neolitsea cambodiana Lecomte
Artist not stated in the record · May 1870

Neolitsea cambodiana Lecomte
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1934 to 30 Sep 1934

Halenia rhyacophila var. procumbens C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1924

Neolitsea phanerophlebia Merr.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1924

Litsea glaucescens var. flavescens (Bartlett) C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record
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. 254397 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 03:28 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.