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 “Saussurea aphylla Rech. f.” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 05:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saussurea aphylla Rech. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1939

Karvandarina aphylla Rech. f. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1948 to 17 May 1948

Karvandarina aphylla Rech. f. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1948 to 17 May 1948

Saussurea gilesii Hemsl.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1937

Saussurea hieracioides Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1885

Saussurea hieracioides Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1922

Saussurea hieracioides Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1925

Saussurea hieracioides Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1923

Saussurea tilicifolia (Hook. f.) Y.S. Chen
Artist not stated in the record · 1889

Nepeta pinetorum var. honigbergeri (Rech. f.) Rech. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1937

Saussurea tilicifolia (Hook. f.) Y.S. Chen
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1966

Saussurea angustifolia f. ramosa Jordal
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1950
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. 654738 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-09 05:56 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.