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 “Design no. 15 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Design no. 15 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Elements of an Italian Light-Cavalry Armor alla Tedesca (in the German Fashion)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Design no. 339 for a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Unlined Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Landscapes, Seasonal Flowers, and Poem
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Opus Anglicanum (Chasuble)
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Unfinished design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Shirt of Mail and Plate
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785
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. 736 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. 4245548 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 2026-09-02 12:46 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.