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 “John Center” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 19:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Center table
John Henry Belter · ca. 1855

Chrysophyllum cainito L.
Artist not stated in the record
Northumbrian Small-Pipe
John Center · after 1867

Stigmaphyllon emarginatum (Cav.) A. Juss.
Artist not stated in the record

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret
Andrea da Giona · 1434

Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merr.
Artist not stated in the record

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

Lantana camara L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1988

Saint John the Baptist
Juan Martínez Montañés · ca. 1620–30

Prockia crucis P. Browne ex L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1988

Center Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

Eugenia biflora (L.) DC.
Artist not stated in the record

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist
Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco) · ca. 1506–7

Lantana camara L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1989

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
John Constable · ca. 1825

Piper amalago L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1989

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

Citharexylum spinosum L.
Artist not stated in the record

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Sida jamaicensis L.
Artist not stated in the record

Classical Landscape with Roma Figures
John Wootton · 1748

Gossypium barbadense L.
Artist not stated in the record

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Salvia serotina L.
Artist not stated in the record
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. 5738 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. 325889 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-04 19:38 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.