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 with Floral and Blue Vertical Stripes” — 64 records examined, 4 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 with Floral and Blue Vertical Stripes
Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

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

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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

Sidewall and border
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

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

Shawl
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Frieze
Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

Tughra (Insignia) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1555–60

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

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–45

Uçetek Entari or Three-Skirt Robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-19th–early 20th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1920

Paste paper with blue stripe and floral pattern
Anonymous · 18th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1863–73

Blue paste paper with striped and floral pattern
Anonymous · ca. 1760–70

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

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

Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–80

Cope hood fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th or early 15th 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. 109 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1556089 matched · 40 examined · 0 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.