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 “Primula cortusoides L.” — 46 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
"Dervish With a Lion", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Padarath · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1500

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1929

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18

"Portrait of Muhammad Ali Baig", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Artist not stated in the record · recto and verso: early 19th century

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1887

"Portrait of Zamana Beg, Mahabat Khan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Manohar · recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530–40

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1891

"Portrait of Khan Dauran Bahadur Nusrat Jang", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Murad · verso: ca. 1640; recto: 1530–50

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1863

recto: "Portrait of Prince Danyal", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Manohar · recto: late 16th century; verso: ca. 1500

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1859

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1910

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1893

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1906

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1919 to Oct 1919

Primula cortusoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1878
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. 1293804 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 2026-09-02 10:23 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.