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Images / art

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 “Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) Made from a Chinese Robe” — 52 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:23 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) Made from a Chinese Robe

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) Made from a Chinese Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Thousand-armed thousand-eyed bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) 明 佚名 《千手千眼觀世音菩薩像》 軸, by Formerly attributed to Fanlong 梵隆 (active mid-12th century)

Thousand-armed thousand-eyed bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) 明 佚名 《千手千眼觀世音菩薩像》 軸

Formerly attributed to Fanlong 梵隆 (active mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Floral-Lozenge Pattern

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Floral-Lozenge Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet

Buddhist tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 535-557

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Peony Arabesque

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Peony Arabesque

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Bosatsu Jizo and Ten Kings of Hell

The Bosatsu Jizo and Ten Kings of Hell

Artist not stated in the record · 1185-1333

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Double-Vined Peony Arabesque

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Double-Vined Peony Arabesque

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe; patched; kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe; patched; kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Peony Patterns in Undulating Columns

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Peony Patterns in Undulating Columns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa. All patches missing

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa. All patches missing

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1796

Public domainThe Met
The Rock Bridge at Mount Tiantai 天台石橋圖, by Zhou Jichang 周季常 (active late 12th century)

The Rock Bridge at Mount Tiantai 天台石橋圖

Zhou Jichang 周季常 (active late 12th century) · 1178

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Crane Patterns on Hexagonal Diaper Pattern (Mokkō) Background

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Crane Patterns on Hexagonal Diaper Pattern (Mokkō) Background

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Jizō, by Intan

The Bodhisattva Jizō

Intan · 1291

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk, a Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa

Brocade, silk, a Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Priest's Vestment (Kesa) with Phoenix

Buddhist Priest's Vestment (Kesa) with Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) Made from a Noh Costume (Karaori) with Autumn Grasses and Butterflies

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) Made from a Noh Costume (Karaori) with Autumn Grasses and Butterflies

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Luohan laundering 羅漢洗濯圖, by Lin Tinggui 林庭桂 (active late 12th century)

Luohan laundering 羅漢洗濯圖

Lin Tinggui 林庭桂 (active late 12th century) · 1178

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe), by Japanese

Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)

Japanese · late 19th to early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a Buddhist robe (kesa)

Fragment of a Buddhist robe (kesa)

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 12 matched · 12 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. 2124939 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 16:23 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.