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 “Side of body in pleated dress” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Side of body in pleated dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Dress worn by Marie Monroe of Rosewood, Florida
Unidentified · 1923

Body with pleated garment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Pleated grey and white geometric print dress with bow
Blakely Fashions · 1950-1965

Dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–65

Dress designed by Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1950

Dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

White dress and jacket with floral embroidery
Unidentified · 1960s

Body fragment with garment pleats
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Dark blue maxi skirt designed by Arthur McGee
Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · 1984

Body (thigh ?) with garment, pleated
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Braided hat with purple pleated hatband
Frances Original, American · ca. 1965

Body, with pleated garment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Photograph of a girl wearing a pleated dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1885-1900

Mummy Board of Iineferty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Dress designed by Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1966

Body (thigh ?) with garment, pleating
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Lavender tweed swing coat designed by Arthur McGee
Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · mid 20th-late 20th century

Lute
Artist not stated in the record · 200–500

Yellow cotton dress with eyelet yoke
Unidentified · 1905 - 1910

body with garment, pleating
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Purple and blue floral print dress with purple belt
Unidentified · 1950s

Body with garment, pleating
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30
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. 4793 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 7483602 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 22:47 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.