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. 12 shown for “John Champion” — 24 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 13:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Trade card of John Brown, Chairs and Cabinet-work, at the Three Cover'd Chairs & Walnut Tree, St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Joseph Champion · 1742–61

The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste
Thomas Chippendale · 1754

Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas Chippendale · 1755

John Wessels, Champion Boy Club Swinger, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.
W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887

John Wessels, Champion Boy Club Swinger, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.
W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887

John Murphy, Champion Driver of Trolling Horses, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.
W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887

John Murphy, Champion Driver of Trolling Horses, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.
W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887

John McPherson, Champion Shot-putter of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.
W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

John L. Sullivan, Champion Heavy Weight Pugilist of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.
W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
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. 97 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 13:08 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.