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 “Ashley, John T.” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 17:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York
John La Farge · 1908–9

Patent Model of a Sheet-feed Apparatus
Ashley, John T. · ca 1873

Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Patent Model of a Sheet-feed Apparatus
Ashley, John T. · ca 1870

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Trillium maculatum Raf.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1968

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Trillium maculatum f. simulans J. D. Freeman
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1968

The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

James M. Ashley
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501
Aleurites fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1931 to Aug 1931

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

Echinocystis sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1933

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels
François Boucher · 1765

Philonotis australis Mitt.
Artist not stated in the record

Covered Dish
John T. Vansant Manufacturing Company · ca. 1883

Dichodontium tasmanicum (Hook. f.) F. Muell.
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1898

The Bark "Theoxena"
Latour · ca.1850

Bartramia papillata Hook. f. & Wilson
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1848

The Sackville Children
John Hoppner · 1796

James M. Ashley
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Communion cup (one of two)
I T · 1631/32

James M. Ashley
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 3164 matched · 24 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. 634233 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 2026-09-05 17:21 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.