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 “Tribulus terrestris L.” — 63 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis...
Johann Baptist Homann · 1746

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record

Paradisi in Sole. Paradisus Terrestris
John Parkinson · 1629

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record

Celestial globe with clockwork
Gerhard Emmoser · 1579

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1839

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)
Ferdinand Hodler · 1896

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Feb 1931

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1914

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1902 to Oct 1902

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1902 to 21 Oct 1902

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Feb 1955

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1940

The Agony in the Garden
Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1940

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1935

Planispheric Astrolabe
Muhammad Zaman al-Munajjim al-Asturlabi · dated 1065 AH/1654–55 CE

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/11/62
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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 3 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. 1329228 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 13:21 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.