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 or girdle with a woven love poem” — 23 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:30 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.

Belt or girdle with a woven love poem
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse
Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona · designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570

Uçetek Entari or Three-Skirt Robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-19th–early 20th century

Belt with Profiles of Half-Length Figures
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–1400

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

A New Record Comparing the Handwriting of the Courtesans of the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin jihitsu kagami) 吉原傾城新美人自筆鏡
Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden) 北尾政演 (山東京伝) · 1784, early spring (Tenmei 4)

Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai
Li Jie · ca. 1170

Key Ring with Lovers
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Nine Songs
Zhao Mengfu · 14th–15th century

Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu
Various artists · 1666–80

Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
Tosa School · early 17th century
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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 9 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 2026-08-27 05:30 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.