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 “Robe (Kosode) with Ferns” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Robe (Kosode) with Ferns
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

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

Robe (Kosode) with Shells and Sea Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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

Robe (Kosode) with Mandarin Orange Tree and Auspicious Characters
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

Robe for a statue
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Beauty of the Kanbun Era
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Automobile and driver's robe
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1915

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

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

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1524–26

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

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Robed figure with whip
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Islands
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Robe (Kosode) with Bamboo and Plum
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Boxing robe worn by Sugar Ray Robinson
Artist not stated in the record · 1940-1965

Robe (Kosode) with Pine, Ivy, Chrysanthemums, and River
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

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

Robe (Kosode) with Pines and Interlocking Squares
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th 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. 58 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. 521853 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-29 10:29 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.