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. 16 shown for “Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit” — 44 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Prayer in the Mosque
Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1951

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1913

The Coronation of the Virgin
Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1904 to Dec 1904

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1912

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit var. aherniana
Artist not stated in the record

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1905 to May 1905

Phanera merrilliana (Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1919 to Nov 1919

Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · May 1917 to Jun 1917

Phanera merrilliana (Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1905

Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record

Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1914

Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit
Artist not stated in the record · May 1909
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1286293 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 23:50 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.