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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. 24 shown for “Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) Made from a Chinese Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa. All patches missing
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Floral-Lozenge Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟. One patch partly cut away
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Figural Squares
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Clematis Flowers, Leaves, and Vines
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Peony Patterns in Undulating Columns
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 18th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)
Japanese · late 19th to early 20th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe; patched; kesa
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Crane Patterns on Hexagonal Diaper Pattern (Mokkō) Background
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Buddhist Priest's Robe (Kesa) with Pattern of Lotus Petals on Water
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe. Patched: Kesa
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Double-Vined Peony Arabesque
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Peony Arabesque
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Nine-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Kujō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–mid 18th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1776873 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-28 04:54 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.