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. 12 shown for “Rulingia madagascariensis var. hildebrandtii Baill. ex Arènes” — 40 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rulingia madagascariensis var. hildebrandtii Baill. ex Arènes
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1880

Rulingia madagascariensis Baker
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 2012

Eriolaena richardii (Baill.) Dorr
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1988

Eriolaena richardii (Baill.) Dorr
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 2004

Nesogordonia thouarsii (Baill.) Capuron ex Arènes
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Feb 2007

Nesogordonia crassipes (Baill.) Capuron ex Arènes
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Feb 2007

Nesogordonia crassipes (Baill.) Capuron ex Arènes
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 2001

Nesogordonia crassipes (Baill.) Capuron ex Arènes
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Nov 1993

Nesogordonia crassipes (Baill.) Capuron ex Arènes
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 2011

Nesogordonia thouarsii (Baill.) Capuron ex Arènes
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 1994

Nesogordonia thouarsii (Baill.) Capuron ex Arènes
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Nov 1994

Nesogordonia thouarsii (Baill.) Capuron ex Arènes
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 2002
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 589834 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 2026-09-05 05:27 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.