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. 23 shown for “Daoist priest’s ritual robe with dragons” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with dragons
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Daoist priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with dragons
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Robe for a statue
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Rice measure with four constellation deities
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Panel from priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with Eight Trigrams
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with cranes
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Rabbit in the Moon
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace
Artist not stated in the record · 1820

Man's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with deities of the pantheon
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th to early 17th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Theatrical robe for a female Daoist priest
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1810

Dragon pine
Wu Boli · late 14th–early 15th century

Church at Puerto Naré, Rio Magdalena, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 18, 1853

Monastic Dance Robe
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 35 matched · 24 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. 305012 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:52 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.