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. 19 shown for “Oliphant” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Oliphant
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Elizabeth Oliphant
James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1795

Oliphant
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Robert Oliphant
Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · 1799

Oliphant (Hunting Horn)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200

Iris lacustris Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1948

Oliphant (side-blown horn)
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · ca. 1490–1530
Halcyon chelicuti damarensis
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Feb 1880

Fragment of an Oliphant
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Menyanthes trifoliata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1948

Horn (Oliphant) with Case
Artist not stated in the record · horn, 11th–12th century; case, 16th century

Persicaria lapathifolia (L.) Delarbre
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/8/26

Tusk Fragment with the Ascension
Artist not stated in the record · 720–970 Radiocarbon date, 95% probability

Castilleja coccinea (L.) Spreng.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1948

Pyrola asarifolia Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/8/26

Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 16/8/34

Viola nephrophylla Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1948

Minuartia stricta (Sw.) Hiern
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/8/26

Arabis drummondii A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/8/26
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. 73 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 77 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-28 23:42 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.