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 “Limb with garment fringe, pleating” — 52 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Limb with garment fringe, pleating
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Design for a Window Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Limb with garment, pleating
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Miniature copy of First Lady Hayes's evening gown by Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1957-1967

Left forearm with garment fringe, pleating and Aten cartouche
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Fan leaf
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Body with garment and shawl fringe, pleating
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Black cassock with band collar
Abbey Brand, American, founded 1947 · mid to late-20th century

limb fragment with faint garment pleats
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Breast (?) with pleating and shawl fringe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Skirt
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pleated garment with selvage at ankle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1500

Body with garment, shawl pleating, fringe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Ankle with selvage of a garment, diagonal pleat above.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery
Unidentified · ca. 1914 - 1916

Official with Pleated Costume
Artist not stated in the record · middle 2nd–1st century BCE

Cream pencil skirt with pleats
Unidentified · 1960s-1980s

Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Skirt
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Furniture plaque carved in relief with a female figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE
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. 12 matched · 12 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. 271435 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 19:28 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.