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 “Man's Court Robe (Kariginu) with Belt and Hat” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Man's Court Robe (Kariginu) with Belt and Hat
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Photograph of six young men posing in front of a bandstand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1923

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Cloud Sketch, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1844 and June 1845

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Photograph of an unidentified man holding a saber
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Photographic postcard of man and a seated woman in western wear
Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1915

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane
Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943 · 1999

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Sultane Reine (The Queen Sultana), plate 29 from Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca)
Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1748

Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446

Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier with hat, trumpet, mandolin, and cartridge belt
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake
Artist not stated in the record · 1980

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Photographic postcard of five men posing with cigars and handguns
Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Garden Gathering
Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Le Grand Seigneur (The Nobleman), plate 17 from the series Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca)
Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1748

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh
Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47

Photographic portrait of a man wearing hat and gun holster
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th 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. 33 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. 1542025 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-03 02:11 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.