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 “Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Funerary relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record

Vue de la Salle Hypostyle du palais de Karnac, prise sur l'angle N.E.
Maxime Du Camp · 1849–50

Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/2/11

The Dance Lesson
Edgar Degas · ca. 1879

Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1967

Sea monster
Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · ca. 1500–1510

Telosma africana (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/12/97

Telosma africanum (N.E. Br.) N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1963

Rhaphidophora africana N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Nov 1981

Rhaphidophora africana N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1916 to May 1916

Ursinia tripartita N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1896

Ursinia concolor N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1897

Ursinia tridentata N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Dec 1896
Euphorbia chersina N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1897

Rhaphidophora africana N.E. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1982
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. 124 matched · 24 examined · 20 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. 62809 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 2026-09-04 21:23 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.