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 “Belt hook with dragons” — 40 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Purple dress and white belt worn by Dionne Warwick
Michael Travis, American, 1928 - 2014 · ca. 1965

Blue gray floral patterned dress with sequined bodice and matching belt
Unidentified · mid 20th century

Mudcloth ensemble created by Twain's Twines
Twain's Twines, American, founded 1990 · 1990s

Chaenactis douglasii Hook. & Arn.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1936

Peach dress and belt worn by Oprah Winfrey on The Oprah Winfrey Show
L'Wren Scott, American, 1964 - 2014 · 2011

Blue tunic with floral embroidery and matching belt?
Unidentified · mid-to late 20th century

Cream tunic shirt with rhinestones and belt
Unidentified · 1980s-1990s

Blue velveteen jacket with embellishments and matching belt
Unidentified · late 20th century

Trouser protector
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet
Unidentified · 1950s

Grey three-piece evening ensemble
Mary Lou Chandler, American, died 1974 · 1950s

Civil War-era belt buckle from Point of Pines Plantation
Unidentified · ca. 1860
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 400416 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 10:40 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.