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. 19 shown for “J. Jones” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The grammar of ornament
Owen Jones · 1856

J. Jones
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Necklace worn by Jessie Greer, gifted to her by George J. Jones
Unidentified · ca. 1919

Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society
T. Dixon · 1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe
J. Jones · n.d.a.

The grammar of ornament
Owen Jones · 1868

Argia vivida
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2012 to 18 Jul 2012

Ceiling Decoration, Palace of Amenhotep III
William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Argia vivida
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2012 to 18 Jul 2012

Ceiling Patterns from the Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata
William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Argia vivida
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2012 to 18 Jul 2012

Syrian Kneeling to the Left, Palace of Amenhotep III at Malqata
William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Argia vivida
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2012 to 18 Jul 2012

Clump of Papyrus, Palace of Amenhotep III
William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Bull in a Papyrus Swamp, Palace of Amenhotep III
William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Flying Ducks
William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Basket of Fruit, Palace of Amenhotep III
William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Examples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections
Owen Jones · 1867
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. 379 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1214178 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:37 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.