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 “Band from a garment or hanging” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Feathered panel
Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Band from a garment or hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Coat
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Hanging
Chimú artist(s) · 12th–15th century

Design for a Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80

Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1470

Design for a Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80

Fragment of a Tapestry or Wall Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420–30

Hanging or portière
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Project: A Bed with a Canopy
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Banjo
Hercules McCord · ca. 1884

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683
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. 3817 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. 2000792 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 16:55 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.