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 “Walsura thwaitesii C. DC. in A. DC.” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 12:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of candlesticks
Jacques Demé · 1690–91

Walsura thwaitesii C. DC. in A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record · without date

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist
Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Walsura robusta Roxb.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1902

Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574), Duke of Florence
Baccio Bandinelli · 1539–40

Walsura brachybotrys Merr.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1913

Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze · 1851

Walsura brachybotrys Merr.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1913

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century–1st quarter 16th century

Walsura trifoliolata (A. Juss.) Harms
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1973

La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour
Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1739–40

Walsura trifoliolata (A. Juss.) Harms
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1969

Virgin and Child in Majesty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Walsura trifoliolata (A. Juss.) Harms
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1969

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Walsura villamilii Merr.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1912 to Jun 1912

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Zehneria thwaitesii (Schweinf.) C. Jeffrey
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1973

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Pandanus thwaitesii Martelli
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1971

Dye-Patterned Silk
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Zehneria thwaitesii (Schweinf.) C. Jeffrey
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Oct 1973

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

Cyanotis obtusa (Trimen) Trimen x C. thwaitesii Hassk.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Nov 1976
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. 3441 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 7485035 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 2026-09-10 12:30 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.