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. 12 shown for “John Howard Foote” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Alto Saxhorn in E-flat
John Howard Foote · ca. 1865–80
Icon with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Guitar
Joseph Bini · ca. 1870
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century
The Antioch "Chalice"
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550
Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century
Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE
Saint John the Baptist
Juan Martínez Montañés · ca. 1620–30
Wine cup
John Hull · ca. 1660
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60
Communion cup (one of two)
I T · 1631/32
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. 1679 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 314904 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:27 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.