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. 13 shown for “Woman's Ceremonial Robe” — 64 records examined, 46 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Woman’s ceremonial robe
Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Newspaper clippings about Old Calabar
Artist not stated in the record · 1842-1845

Woman's Ceremonial Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Woman's Ceremonial Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Woman's Ceremonial Robe
Artist not stated in the record · last third 19th century
Woman's Ceremonial Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th or early 19th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–70

Woman's robe with peonies and shou medallions
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Woman's Eight Medallion Ceremonial Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Robe à l'anglaise
Artist not stated in the record · 1785–87

Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)
Metope Painter · 3rd quarter of the 4th century BCE

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

Robe à la française
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75
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. 648 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 45575 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 14:19 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.