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 Shells and Sea Grasses” — 57 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:37 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 Shells and Sea Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Projet de la chapelle de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for the St. Sulpice Chapel of Paris), plate 101, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

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

Daoist priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Two Sisters
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769–70

Pshán-shaw, Sweet-scented Grass, Twelve-year-old Daughter of Bloody Hand
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Robe (kosode) with landscape and seasonal flowers
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Unlined Kosode (Hitoe) with Grasses and Dewdrops
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th–19th century

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

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

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

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

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

Pilgrim Flask
Bernard Palissy · probably 1556–67

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

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Le Galand Chasseur
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

Triton
Giambologna · 1590s

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

Unlined Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Crickets, Grasshoppers, Cricket Cages, and Pampas Grass
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 2 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. 2273745 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 22:37 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.