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. 14 shown for “Man's coat” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat
Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Man's coat
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Man's coat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Man's coat
Artist not stated in the record · 1751–1800

Ewer with Wild Man Finial
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Riding coat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Coat
Artist not stated in the record · 1882

Coat
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Coat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Coat
Artist not stated in the record · 1790s

Man in a Long-sleeved Coat
Riza-yi 'Abbasi · ca. 1598

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)
Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · ca. 1585–86
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. 507 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 66596 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 00:26 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.