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 from Theatrical Ensemble for a Female Role” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:17 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 from Theatrical Ensemble for a Female Role
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Ivory silk ensemble with skirt slip
Vogue Pattern Company, American, founded 1899 · 1970s-1980s

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)
Okak-Fang artist · 19th century

Love Will Find a Way
Artist not stated in the record · 1921

Female figure
Ixtlán del Río artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE

Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1845

Jacket from Theatrical Ensemble for a Female Role
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Design for a Print with Twenty Theatrical Costumes Worn in Paris Performances
Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · ca. 1845

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Escaramuza 5 piece ensemble
Enselma · 2009

Kneeling female figure
Lagunillas artist(s) · 200 BCE–200 CE

Grey three-piece evening ensemble
Mary Lou Chandler, American, died 1974 · 1950s

Seated female figure
Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Escaramuza 3 piece ensemble
Enselma · 2007

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Costume worn by Deborah Burrell for "Eubie!" in 1978
Bernard Johnson, American, 1936 - 1997 · most likely 1930s; modified 1978

Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Woman in national dress. St. Lucia. W. I.
Minivielle & Chastanet, Saint Lucian, founded 1864 · ca. 1905

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Paper Doll Costume in Black over Checked Pink Skirt
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Silk organza unfinished dress with blue embroidery
Unidentified · ca. 1966
Theatrical skirt with peacock feather design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 7
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920
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. 68 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2652594 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 22:17 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.