OpenTwo 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 “John Best” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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John Best · mid-18th century
Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · modeled 1865, patented 1866
Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)
John Singer Sargent · 1883–84
Delphinus delphis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Dec 1974
The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14
Ditrichum ambiguum Best
Artist not stated in the record
Side Chair
Benjamin Henry Latrobe · ca. 1808
Ditrichum ambiguum Best
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1910
Saint John
Neroccio de' Landi · late 15th century
Ptychomitrium leibergii Best
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1906
Saint John
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century
Ditrichum ambiguum Best
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1907
Saint John
Antonio Susini · 1596
Ditrichum ambiguum Best
Artist not stated in the record · May 1908
Drop-leaf dining table
John Townsend · 1756
Ditrichum ambiguum Best
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1906
John Quincy Adams Ward
Henry Augustus Loop · 1863
Ditrichum ambiguum Best
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1908
Alexander Hamilton
John Trumbull · 1804–6
Ptychomitrium leibergii Best
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1906
![[Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace on a Beach], by Thomas Eakins](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP228730.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace on a Beach]
Thomas Eakins · ca. 1883
Pseudoleskea baileyi Best & Grout in Grout
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1916
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hester Jane Ogle, 1775/76–1817) and Her Son (Charles Brinsley Sheridan, 1796–1843)
John Hoppner
Acer platanoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 2006
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. 709 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. 263685 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 01:28 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.