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 robe decorated with crane medallions” — 64 records examined, 1 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.
Woman’s robe decorated with crane medallions
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Woman's surcoat
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Woman’s coat with crane medallions
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Decorative panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1845–1850

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century–first half 19th century

Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support medallion with coat of arms)
Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1700

The Japanese Robe
Alfred Stevens · ca. 1872

Music Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1870–1920

Woman’s robe decorated with cranes amid clouds
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Design for a Decorative Panel (with Nymphs and Garlands)
Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · ca. 1775

Uçetek Entari or Three-Skirt Robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-19th–early 20th century

Oriental
New Wharf Pottery Co., active 1878 – 1894 · ca. 1878–85

Woman’s robe with butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Variety
Ridgeways, ca. 1879 – 1920 · ca. 1879–85

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mandarin Orange Branches and Books
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half 19th century

Kylix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440 BC

Beauty of the Kanbun Era
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Plate
Joseph Théodore Deck, French, 1823 - 1891 · ca. 1885

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

Uçetek Entari
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Inkstand
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1787–1793

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Project for Part of a Painted Decoration
Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 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. 129 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. 299698 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 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.