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 Ingram” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Seller of Celery
John Ingram · 1741–63

L'École Domestique
Artist not stated in the record · after 1755

The Young Housekeeper
John Ingram · 1741–63

La Bonne Mere
Artist not stated in the record · after 1755

The Egg Merchant
John Ingram · 1741–63

La Quêteuse de Grand Chemin
Artist not stated in the record · after 1755

The Chinese Gardener
John Ingram · 1741–63

La Crêmiére
Artist not stated in the record · after 1755

Chinese Bell Music
John Ingram · 1741–63

Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)
Artist not stated in the record · 1778 - 1807

Chinese Curiosities
John Ingram · 1741–63

Eriodictyon sessilifolium Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955

The Flower Girl Fanchonette
John Ingram · 1741–63

Amsinckia tessellata A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1954

The Master Gardener
John Ingram · 1741–63

Muilla maritima (Torr.) S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1950

The Master Gardener
John Ingram · 1741–63

Bloomeria clevelandii S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1950

The Small Dog Standing on Hind Legs
John Ingram · 1741–63

Eriastrum eremicum (Jeps.) H. Mason
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1955

The Savoyard with His Box
John Ingram · 1741–63

Ipomopsis longiflora (Torr.) V.E. Grant
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1955

The Game of Chinese Chess
John Ingram · 1741–63

Phlox stansburyi (Torr.) A. Heller
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 1955
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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 261347 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 2026-09-01 20:31 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.