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. 16 shown for “Taylor & Perry” — 46 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vinaigrette
Taylor & Perry · 1834

Erigeron quercifolius Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1975

Charles Henry Augustus Carter
Nicholas Biddle Kittell · ca. 1845
Mononeuria paludicola (Fassett) Dillenb. & Kadereit
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1961

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Scutellaria multiglandulosa (Kearney) Small
Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1961

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Fimbristylis puberula (Michx.) Vahl var. puberula
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1964
Cosmarium sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949
Desmidium swartzii
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949
Schizochlamys aurantica
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949
Microspora wittrockii
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949
Microspora stagnorum
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949
Batrachospermum sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949
Desmidium aptogonium
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949
Vaucheria terrestris
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1949
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 124 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 2026-08-28 08:00 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.