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 “Scrolling polychrome passion flower floral garlands” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dish with Floral Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545–60

Scrolling polychrome passion flower floral garlands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Dish with Floral Designs
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1772

Footed Dish with Foliate Rim in Imitation of Chinese Porcelain
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

Ornamental Frame Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Mirror
Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Border
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Urn (One of a Pair)
Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

Bottle with Flying Cranes
Artist not stated in the record · 1650s

Urn (One of a Pair)
Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Vase decorated with bats and peaches amid scrolling floral vines and “double happiness” character
Artist not stated in the record

Elevations d'alcoves avec portes de degagement
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

Vase with floral scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Plate
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Harpsichord converted to a piano
Jean Goermans · 1754

Ornamental Frame Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Basket of Flowers
Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Title Page
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730
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. 62 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 42496 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 2026-09-08 02:03 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.