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. 24 shown for “Salvia mexicana L.” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Altar to the Sun Warrior
Mexico Nahua artist(s) · 1450-1521 CE

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1827

Armband
Huastec artist(s) · 900–1300 CE

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record

Armband
Huastec artist(s) · 900–1300 CE

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1841

Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1890

Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1897

Serpent labret with articulated tongue
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1865 to 1 Aug 1866

Mantle pin (ttipqui)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1937

Drum (Teponaztli)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1913

Yoke-form vessel
Maya artist(s) · 350–450 CE

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1865 to 21 Sep 1866

Bound-hands hacha
Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1897

Tomb Effigy of a Boy, Probably Ermengol IX, Count of Urgell
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1919

Modified celt-pendant with incised motifs
Olmec artist(s) · 900–600 BCE

Salvia mexicana L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1865 to 1866
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1310633 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 11:44 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.