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 “Dress panels (2)” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Yellow cotton dress with eyelet yoke
Unidentified · 1905 - 1910

Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Beige A-line dress with jacket
Jean Louis, French, 1907 - 1997 · 1960s

Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion
Thomas Tompion · ca. 1677–80

Pink jersey dress with embroidered shoulder panels by Scott Barrie
Scott Barrie, American, 1946 - 1993 · 1970s

Pair of side chairs
Thomas How · ca. 1724–36

Brown sunflower print dress and matching jacket
Anna May Nichols, American · 1950s

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Red collared dress with pink lining
Gunter Project 2, German, 1968 - 1979 · 1960s

Dress panels (2)
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 18th century

Green leather halter dress with matching coat and beret by B. Gayle Creations
B. Gayle Creations, American · 1980s

Dress panels (2)
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

Light gold boat neck dress with matching bolero
Unidentified · 1950s

Choir stall panels
Johann Justus Schacht · ca. 1723–26, figures 1787

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

Cheval fire screen
Thomas Moore · ca. 1755–60

Cream lace and pale peach dress designed by Arthur McGee
Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · 1960-1975

Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50)
Hans Wagner the Elder · dated 1539

Mauve floral dress and belt with black capelet
Unidentified · 1950s

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons
Kano Mitsunobu 狩野光信 · late 16th century

Pink floral drop waist dress with belt and fabric scrap
Unidentified · late 1920s

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Yellow asymmetrical wrap around coat dress
Unidentified · 1960s - 1990s
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. 9824 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1044073 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 03:08 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.