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 “Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madonna and Child with Saints
Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1505–10

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1890

Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1904

Dancers Practicing at the Barre
Edgar Degas · 1877

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1935

Sulking
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1937

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1936

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1942

Portia
Sir John Everett Millais · 1886

Swertia utahensis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1928

The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Swertia montana (Mulford) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1899

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

Atriplex gardneri var. utahensis (M.E. Jones) Dorn
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1931

The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"
Edgar Degas · 1871

Cymopterus utahensis M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1894

Madame Théodore Gobillard (Yves Morisot, 1838–1893)
Edgar Degas · 1869

Arceuthobium laricis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1917

Animal pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Arceuthobium laricis (M.E. Jones) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1907
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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1239385 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 23:51 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.