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Images / art

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. 24 shown for “Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Clematis Flowers, Leaves, and Vines” — 56 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:27 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Clematis Flowers, Leaves, and Vines

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Clematis Flowers, Leaves, and Vines

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
LA THÉOLOGIE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

LA THÉOLOGIE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa)

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
LA THÉOLOGIE, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

LA THÉOLOGIE

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Maple Leaves and Fans

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Maple Leaves and Fans

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th–first half of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Collar

Collar

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) Made from a Noh Costume (Karaori) with Autumn Grasses and Butterflies

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) Made from a Noh Costume (Karaori) with Autumn Grasses and Butterflies

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of Clematis Vine with Blue Berries, by Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929

Study of Clematis Vine with Blue Berries

Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Double-Vined Peony Arabesque

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Double-Vined Peony Arabesque

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Religious Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Religious Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small Letter Box (Ko-fubako) with Decoration of Clematis Vine

Small Letter Box (Ko-fubako) with Decoration of Clematis Vine

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Vestment

Vestment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes, Figures, and Flowers, by Chen Hongshou

Landscapes, Figures, and Flowers

Chen Hongshou · dated 1618–22

Public domainThe Met
Vestment

Vestment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sake Bottle with Design of Leaves, Vines, and Waves

Sake Bottle with Design of Leaves, Vines, and Waves

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

Public domainThe Met
Two Medallion or Frame Designs, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Two Medallion or Frame Designs

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Poems from One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets, by Hon'ami Kōetsu

Two Poems from One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets

Hon'ami Kōetsu · ca. 1615–20

Public domainThe Met
Collars

Collars

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Chrysanthemums, Clouds, and Bamboo

Two Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Chrysanthemums, Clouds, and Bamboo

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟. One patch partly cut away

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟. One patch partly cut away

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe), by Japanese

Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)

Japanese · late 19th to early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Vestment

Vestment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century or early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Ornamental Trophy Designs, by Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781

Two Ornamental Trophy Designs

Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781 · 1729–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 0 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. 1532196 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 01:27 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.