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. 12 shown for “Theatrical robe for a female Daoist priest” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Theatrical robe for a female Daoist priest
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Theatrical vest for a female Buddhist priest
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Woman's Theatrical Jacket
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Theatrical robe for a Buddhist priest
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg"
Ignaz Günther · ca. 1755

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

The Circumcision
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460–70

Daoist priest’s ritual robe with deities of the pantheon
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th to early 17th century

Theatrical robe with eight trigrams
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Theatrical Robe for the Role of a Guard
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Theatrical Robe for a Military Role
Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 14:22 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.