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. 12 shown for “Joseph Champion” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Trade card of John Brown, Chairs and Cabinet-work, at the Three Cover'd Chairs & Walnut Tree, St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Joseph Champion · 1742–61

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

A New Book of Chinese Designs
Matthias Darly · 1754

Title page of "A New Book of Chinese Designs"
Matthias Darly · 1754

The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste
Thomas Chippendale · 1754

Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas Chippendale · 1755

Joseph Morsler, Champion Pool Player, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.
W.S. Kimball & Co. · 1887

Enameled and Gilded Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

The Champion of the People
Thomas Rowlandson · March 11, 1784

Hoboken / IN / New Jersey
Joseph Stubbs · ca. 1822–ca. 1836

For The Benefit of The Champion
Thomas Rowlandson · May 20, 1784

The Banishment of Hagar
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 1839–41
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. 42 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:03 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.