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. 17 shown for “John Deere” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

John Deere Plow
John Deere · 1838

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Agrostis mertensii Trin.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1925

Bronze statuette of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–8th century BCE

Sorbus decora (Sarg.) C.K. Schneid.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1925

Amethyst ring stone
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Euphrasia arctica Lange ex Rostrup
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1925

Panel with Hunting Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Poa pratensis subsp. irrigata (Lindm.) H. Lindb.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1925

The Hermit (Il solitario)
John Singer Sargent · 1908

Fragment of a terracotta stemmed dish
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 6th century BCE

Carnelian ring stone
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)
Bowdoin Painter · ca. 480–470 BCE

Terracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel) with antlers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725–1600 BCE

Christ in the Wilderness
Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) · ca. 1515–20

The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505
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. 182 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. 271027 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 00:30 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.