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 “Paper Doll Costume in Pink and White Lace” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Miniature tabard
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Paper Doll Costume in Pink and White Lace
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Valentine
Anonymous · 1879

Paper Doll Costume in Yellow with White Lace and Pink Rose Garlands
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874

Paper Doll Costume in Black over Checked Pink Skirt
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Young Woman with a Pink
Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

Paper Doll Costume in Pink with Black Lace and Yellow Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Paper Doll Costume with Floral and Blue Vertical Stripes
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Paper Doll and Costume in Emerald Green and Pink Roses
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Valentine
Anonymous · ca. 1880

Paper Doll Costume in White with Black Spots
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Valentine
Anonymous · ca. 1880

Paper Doll Costume in Blue with Flower Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Valentine
Anonymous · ca. 1880

Paper Doll Costume in White with Red Roses
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Valentine
Anonymous · ca. 1880

Paper Doll and Costume
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Paper Doll Costume in Blue with White Trim and Garlands
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

Valentine
Anonymous · 1876

Paper Doll Costume in White Fur with Pink Bow
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80
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. 70 matched · 24 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. 7483614 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-06 15:17 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.