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. 21 shown for “John Letelier Sr.” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Spoon
John Letelier Sr. · 1775–1800
Pinus cembroides Zucc.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 2016

Skewer
John Letelier Sr. · 1775–1800
Pinus cooperi C.E. Blanco
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2016
Pinus chihuahuana Engelm.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 2016

John Davison Rockefeller, Sr.
Timothy Cole, 1852 - 1931 · 1921

John Davison Rockefeller, Sr.
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1911

Teapot
John Letelier Sr. · 1770–95

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1914

Waste Bowl
John Letelier Sr. · 1770–95

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · c. 1925

Creamer
John Letelier Sr. · 1770–95

John Pierpont Morgan, Sr.
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1912

Tall Clock
John Wood Sr. · 1750–60

John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Albert Levering, 1869 - 1929 · 1905

Looking Glass
John Elliott Sr. · 1769–75

John Pierpont Morgan
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1902

Wine cup
John Hull · ca. 1660

John Pierpont Morgan
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1902

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

John Hunn, Chief Engineer of the Southern End, Officers of the Road
Unidentified Artist · 1872
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. 329 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. 268459 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-28 02:43 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.