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. 19 shown for “Dye-Patterned Silk” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dye-Patterned Silk
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Noh robe fragment (karaori) 唐織
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th century

Fragmentary Silk Velvet with Repeating Tiger-stripe and 'Chintamani' Design
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Ceremonial shoulder cloth (Selendang)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Fans and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–first half 19th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Unlined Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Crickets, Grasshoppers, Cricket Cages, and Pampas Grass
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Wrapper
Nana Tiko · Early-late 19th century

Wedding ensemble with cranes, pines, and rising-cloud patterns
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Square
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Panel with grotesques, from a set of bed hangings
Cornelis Floris II · ca. 1550–60

Selendang (shoulder cloth)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Man's Formal Jacket (Haori)
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Miniature tabard
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Strapwork with Flowers and Jewels
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

The Emperor's Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Kimono-Shaped Coverlet (Yogi) with Chinese Lions and Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th 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. 122 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. 47 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 22:19 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.