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 “Skirt fragment” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Skirt fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Skirt fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Fragment of a dress skirt
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Skirt fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Composed Armor
Matthes Deutsch · 15th century and later

Skirt fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Riding Coat
Artist not stated in the record · first half 13th century

Skirt fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pillar Fragment with Dancing Apsaras
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Skirt fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Part of a skirt
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 19th century

Fragments of skirt
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–99

Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (Tapis)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
Painter of Vatican 365 · 540–530 BCE

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

Prajnaparamita, Painting from a Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript
Unidentified artist · 11th–12th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Garment fragment, royal kilt at knee
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

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

Garment fragment, royal kilt at the knee
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Smiling figure (Sonriente)
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Fragments
Unknown · 1836–40
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. 38 matched · 24 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. 42582 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-07 04:07 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.