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. 16 shown for “Gilet” — 27 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gilet
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Design for Embroidered Gilet, pattern 1730 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf
Mademoiselle Montalent · 1785

Gilet
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Design for the Embroidery of the Left Side of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," "Gilet" Design"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

View of Messina Harbor
Louis François Cassas · 1783

Design for Embroidered Coat (upper section), Gilet lapel, pattern 1464 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf
Mademoiselle Montalent · 1785

Ensemble
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Design for an embroidered "gilet" of the Fabrique de St. Ruf
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Design for Gilet, pattern 1732 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf
Mademoiselle Montalent · ca. 1785

Design for Embroidered Waistcoat, pattern 1819 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf, "Gilet" design
Mademoiselle Montalent · ca. 1785

Design for the Embroidery of the Left Bottom Corner of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," "Gilet" Design, Unfinished
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

Design for the Embroidery of the Left Bottom Corner of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," "Gilet" Design
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

Design for Embroidery, Corner of Gentleman's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Design for Embroidery, Corner of Gentleman's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Design for Embroidery, Gentleman's Waistcoat Pocket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Design for Embroidery, Gentleman's Waistcoat Pocket
Mademoiselle Calva, French, active late 18th century · 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 17 matched · 17 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 2026-08-28 12:15 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.