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. 13 shown for “Apparels for a Requiem Mass” — 48 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Apparels for a Requiem Mass
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700 (embroidery) patched and reassembled to current shape in the 19th century

Collar
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Apparel from a dalmatic
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Portrait of a Married Couple (Lorenz Kraffter and Honesta Merz?)
Ulrich Apt the Elder · 1512

Apparel from a dalmatic
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Island of the Dead
Arnold Böcklin · 1880

Design for the Embroidery of Wearing Apparel of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1780–1790

Nine Songs
Zhao Mengfu · 14th–15th century

Design for the Embroidery of Wearing Apparel, No. 18, of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1780–1790

Design for the Embroidery or Printed Fabric of Wearing-Apparel of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1780–1790

Collars
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Design for the Embroidery of Wearing Apparel, No. 31, of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1785–1795
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2189793 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:48 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.