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 “Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Bamboo and Young Pines on Bands of Red and White” — 62 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Bamboo and Young Pines on Bands of Red and White
Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

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

Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Young Pines and Snow-Covered Bamboo on a Red Ground
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Noh Robe (Karaori)
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Acolyte robe from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles
Unidentified · ca. 1963

Noh Robe (Karaori)
Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

Chapan (robe)
Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526

Noh robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

The Japanese Robe
Alfred Stevens · ca. 1872

Noh robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Shawl
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

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

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Saint Mary Magdalen
Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · 1350s

Kimono
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Noh robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Crucifix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Palampore
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820
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. 22 matched · 22 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. 3295138 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 22:40 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.