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. 13 shown for “Romulea flava (Lam.) M.P. de Vos” — 41 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Romulea flava (Lam.) M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Romulea flava (Lam.) M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Romulea flava (Lam.) M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/5/92

Romulea flava (Lam.) M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1896

Romulea bulbocodioides var. minor Bég.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1896

Romulea membranacea M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 12/8/83
Romulea rosea var. australis (Ewart) M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 2002

Gladiolus saccatus (Klatt) Goldblatt & M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1928 to Apr 1929

Gladiolus saccatus (Klatt) Goldblatt & M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1931

Gladiolus schweinfurthii (Baker) Goldblatt & M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1902

Romulea rosea (L.) Eckl.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1949

Gladiolus saccatus (Klatt) Goldblatt & M.P. de Vos
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1947
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 666050 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 10:47 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.