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 “Toad” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Toad
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 16th century

Engraving of lizard species "Phrynosoma regale, Doliosaurus m'callii"
Baird, Spencer Fullerton · 1859

Toad Amuleet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–380 BCE
Phrynosoma hernandesi
Artist not stated in the record
Toad Paperweight
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Phrynosoma hernandesi
Artist not stated in the record

Toad and Flowers
Hokusai School · 19th century
Phrynosoma hernandesi
Artist not stated in the record

Flower and Toad
Zhang Xiong

Texas Horned Lizard
Artist not stated in the record

Toad with a Young Toad on its Back
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 16th century

Phrynosoma hernandesi
Artist not stated in the record

Immortal Liu Hai astride a toad
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Phrynosoma hernandesi
Artist not stated in the record

A Corsican Toad Under a Harrow
Thomas Rowlandson · November 27, 1813

Phrynosoma hernandesi
Artist not stated in the record

A Corsican Toad Under a Harrow
Thomas Rowlandson · November 27, 1813

Phrynosoma hernandesi
Artist not stated in the record

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Phrynosoma coronatum frontale
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1905

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Phrynosoma coronatum blainvillii
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1891

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Texas Horned Lizard
Artist not stated in the record
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. 58 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 668 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 12:49 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.