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 “Child’s Ruffled Satin Dress” — 61 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 11:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

Child’s Ruffled Satin Dress
Artist not stated in the record · Between 1930 and 1940

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Pink floral lace dress with ruffled skirt
Tutti's Fashions, American · 1980s

Dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1814

Dress designed by Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · mid 20th century

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 1580–1610

Child's dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

Child's Robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-19th–early 20th century

Miniature copy of First Lady Hayes's evening gown by Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1957-1967

Salome
Henri Regnault · 1870

Paper Doll and Costume
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Christ Blessing the Children
Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop · ca. 1545–50

Child's dress
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–30

Black Raggedy Ann style doll with ivory dress
Unidentified · late 20th century

John Barnard
John Michael Rysbrack · 1744

Cabinet card of three unidentified women and a child by J. P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850)
Théodore Chassériau · 1841

Child's gown
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1868–69

Net and lace child's dress with satin floral ribbon
Unidentified · 1910s-1920s

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1
Rudolph Ackermann, London · January–June 1809

Dress worn by Denyce Graves in Washington National Opera's production of Carmen
Donna Langman, American · 1993-1994
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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 8 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. 36770 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-06 11:57 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.