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 “Woman's Summer Kimono with Design of Small Crosses” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:56 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 Summer Kimono with Design of Small Crosses
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Cross-Stitch of Woman in Kimono with Fan
Ira Blount · c. 1994

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

Narumi, Specialty Shop with Arimatsu Shibori Cloth, from the Famous Sights of the Fifty-Three Stations series, No. 41
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1855

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Kimono
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Woman Holding a Fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Geisha Holding Fish on Platter
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866

Allegory of the Four Seasons - Summer
Jacopo Amigoni, Italian, 1682–1752 · 1739-1752

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Kimono
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Embroidered band sampler
Mary Pots · 1648

International Tea Party
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · ca. 1867

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

Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."
Artist not stated in the record · after 1780

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Asian Female with Parasol
Bristol Manufacturing Company, American, 1895 - 1915 · ca. 1895

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Elevation et Coupe d'une niche avec figures
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross
Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · ca. 1540
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. 167 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2934818 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 04:56 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.