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. 20 shown for “Scleranthus perennis L.” — 50 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:38 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 Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel · 1875

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record

Study of Water and Plants
Thomas Fearnley · 1837

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1866

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Spring 1892

United States Continental Currency – Fifty Dollars
Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · September 26, 1778

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1863

Commemorating the Coronation Festivals. 1804.
Nicholas Guy Antoine Brenet · 19th century

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1890

Pygmalion and Galatea
Jean-Léon Gérôme · ca. 1890

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record

Virgin and Child
Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter · ca. 1495–1500

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1892

The Temptation of Saint Mary Magdalen
Johann Liss · ca. 1626

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 188

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1847

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1922

Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1884
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1291013 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 2026-09-03 08:38 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.