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 “Woven silk skirt panel” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Woven silk skirt panel
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Ivory silk ensemble with skirt slip
Vogue Pattern Company, American, founded 1899 · 1970s-1980s

Panel of brocaded silk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Tapis (skirt)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series
Jean Démosthène Dugourc · ca. 1799

Skirt
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Panel of brocaded silk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Black silk dress with crepe overlay and embroidery
Unidentified · ca. 1914 - 1916

Panel of brocaded silk
James Leman (British, 1688–1745) · ca. 1720

Skirt panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Panel of brocaded silk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Skirt panel
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Dress panels
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Ceremonial Armors for Man (Dingjia) and Horse
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Brown bodice and skirt with green silk trim
Unidentified · ca.1895

Armor (Yoroi) of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Skirt panel
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Skirt
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pleated grey and white geometric print dress with bow
Blakely Fashions · 1950-1965

Skirt Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Green bodice and skirt with brown stripe accents
Unidentified · ca. 1880

Skirt
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt
Unidentified · 1965-1980
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. 556 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 32838 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 08:31 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.