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 Rogers & Son” — 63 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Teapot
John Rogers & Son · ca. 1823–ca. 1842

The Wrestlers
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · modeled 1881

Plate
John Rogers & Son · ca. 1815–ca. 1842

Coming to the Parson
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1870
![[Massachussetts State House, Boston], by John Rogers & Son](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fad%2Fweb-large%2F148810.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Massachussetts State House, Boston]
John Rogers & Son · ca. 1815–ca. 1842

The Favored Scholar
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1873

Wounded to the Rear / One More Shot
John Rogers · 1864; cast 1865

Checkers up at the Farm
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1875

Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

"Is It So Nominated in the Bond?"
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1860

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

Wounded to the Rear, One More Shot
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1865

Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · modeled 1865, patented 1866

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

"Ha! I Like Not That"
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1882

Desk and Bookcase
John Davey · 1805–10

The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1864

Mrs. Warren Rogers
John Paradise · ca. 1821

The Council of War
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · modeled ca. 1873

Francis Brinley
John Smibert · 1729

John Vaughan (or Uriah)
Christopher Greiner, active 1837; died 1864 · ca. 1860

Tall clock
John Townsend · 1789

1790 - 1810 Copp Family's "Nine-patch" Pieced Quilt
Copp Family · 1790-1810
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. 385 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. 39 matched · 39 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 2026-08-26 17:58 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.