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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Clematis Flowers, Leaves, and Vines
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

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

Collar
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) Made from a Noh Costume (Karaori) with Autumn Grasses and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Study of Clematis Vine with Blue Berries
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Double-Vined Peony Arabesque
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Religious Trophy Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

Small Letter Box (Ko-fubako) with Decoration of Clematis Vine
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Vestment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Landscapes, Figures, and Flowers
Chen Hongshou · dated 1618–22

Vestment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Sake Bottle with Design of Leaves, Vines, and Waves
Artist not stated in the record · 1780

Two Medallion or Frame Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

Two Poems from One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets
Hon'ami Kōetsu · ca. 1615–20

Collars
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Two Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Chrysanthemums, Clouds, and Bamboo
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–late 18th 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

Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)
Japanese · late 19th to early 20th century

Vestment
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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

Two Ornamental Trophy Designs
Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781 · 1729–61
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.