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. 18 shown for “John Scofield” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chamberstick with snuffers (one of a pair)
John Scofield · 1792

Christella serra (Sw.) Holttum
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1917

Salver
John Scofield · 1784–85

Paralichthys aestuarius Gilbert & Scofield
Artist not stated in the record

Taperstick
John Scofield · 1782–83

Vaccinium stamineum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Sep 1906

Chamberstick with snuffers (one of a pair)
John Scofield · 1792
Ternstroemia peduncularis DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1917

The Coronation of the Virgin
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1632–33
Begonia domingensis A. DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1917

Seated Woman, Back View
Egon Schiele · 1917
Euphorbia ipecacuanhae L.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1907
Jatropha glaucovirens Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1917
Gossypium barbadense L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1917
Gossypium barbadense L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1917
Parula americana
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 19--

Euplectes orix franciscanus
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Feb 1931
Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima (E. Fourn.) Reeder
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1917
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. 52 matched · 24 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 261497 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-02 22:00 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.