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. 18 shown for “Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King” — 46 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1969

Majas on a Balcony
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · May 1898 to Oct 1898

Bullfight in a Divided Ring
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1969

The Chess Players
Liberale da Verona · ca. 1475

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1941

A Man on Crutches
Edouard Manet · 1878

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1969

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1933

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1969

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1969

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 1870

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1969

Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1946
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7467871 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 2026-09-05 10:16 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.