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. 15 shown for “Prunus virginiana L.” — 44 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Ink Prunus
Gao Xiang

Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record

"Rustam Lassos Rakhsh," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1330–40

Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

Ottoman Court Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th century

Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: //18

Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/5/4

Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1873
Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 2025
Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1941
Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1914

Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1897

Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1907 to 15 May 1907

Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1895

Prunus virginiana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1887
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 · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1298447 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 2026-09-04 04:25 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.