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. 12 shown for “Vateria acuminata Thwaites, nom. illeg.” — 40 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vateria acuminata Thwaites, nom. illeg.
Artist not stated in the record

Apocopis wightii Nees ex Thwaites, nom. illeg.
Artist not stated in the record

Apocopis wightii Nees ex Thwaites, nom. illeg.
Artist not stated in the record

Panicum reticulatum Thwaites ex Trimen, nom. illeg.
Artist not stated in the record

Panicum reticulatum Thwaites ex Trimen, nom. illeg.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1865

Panicum reticulatum Thwaites ex Trimen, nom. illeg.
Artist not stated in the record · 1868

Vateria scabriuscula Thwaites
Artist not stated in the record

Garnotia scoparia Thwaites
Artist not stated in the record · 1864

Garnotia decidua Santos
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1865

Garnotia decidua Santos
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1865

Comocladia acuminata Britton
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1871 to Mar 1871

Comocladia acuminata Britton
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1871 to Mar 1871
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 30934 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-08 17:44 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.