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. 20 shown for “Theatrical vest for a female Buddhist priest” — 59 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Theatrical vest for a female Buddhist priest
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Theatrical robe for a Buddhist priest
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Priests Worshipping on the Ocean Shore
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Woman's Theatrical Jacket
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Daoist priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Theatrical robe for a female Daoist priest
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript
Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Three Friezes; A Base; An Ornament
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

Theatrical Costume for the Role of a Buddhist Cleric
Artist not stated in the record

Buddhist allegory of a priest burning cherry branches
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1760-1849

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

Sketchbook Page: Egyptian Figure, The High Priest
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Clematis Flowers, Leaves, and Vines
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Water jar with design of reeds and water
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1868

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Pattern of Flowing Water, Chrysanthemums, Fishing Nets, and Waterwheels
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Theatrical skirt with peacock feather design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Theatrical jacket with peacock feather design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467
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. 19 matched · 19 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. 2495781 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:30 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.