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 C. Higgins” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Man in Bottle], by John C. Higgins](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP259664.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Man in Bottle]
John C. Higgins · ca. 1888
Cryptantha celosioides (Eastw.) Payson
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1968
Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511
Cryptantha johnstonii L.C. Higgins
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1968
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century
Cryptantha ochroleuca L.C. Higgins
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1968
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Cryptantha compacta L.C. Higgins
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1968
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501
Cryptantha compacta L.C. Higgins
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1968
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55
Lappula occidentalis var. cupulata (A. Gray) L.C. Higgins
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 1981
Reliquary monstrance of St. John the Baptist
C. C. · ca. 1640, with 18th century additions
Conringia orientalis (L.) C. Presl
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1968
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret
Andrea da Giona · 1434
Saint John Globe Vol. XXIII No. 47
Artist not stated in the record · February 25, 1881
Tall Clock
Thomas Seymour · 1805–10
Lappula occidentalis var. cupulata (A. Gray) L.C. Higgins
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1900
St. John the Evangelist
Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744
Elaphoglossum hirtum var. micans C. Chr.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Dec 1956
Teapot
John Bartlam · ca. 1765–69
Phacelia palmeri Torr. ex S. Watson in C. King
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1969
Jug
John Crolius · 1775
Odontonema nitidum (Jacq.) Kuntze
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1992
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. 8394 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1225388 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 08:39 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.