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 “Banner with Tassel and Shaft” — 60 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Banner with Tassel and Shaft
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Banner
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Standard (Alem)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700

Interior Wall Elevation with a Sofa
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777-79

Banner with Shaft
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Title Page
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1908

Banner with Shaft
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Flag of the 9th Regiment of United States Volunteers
Unidentified · 1898-1899

Signaling Baton (Saihai) and Storage Box
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Two Elevations for a Chandelier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Halberd of Archduke Ernst of Austria (1553–1605)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1593

Two Arabesque Panel Designs
Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

Glaive of Emperor Rudolf II (reigned 1576–1612)
Hans Stromair · dated 1577

Two Arabesque Panel Designs
Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

Fauchard of the Bodyguard of Cardinal Scipione Borghese-Caffarelli (1576–1633)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1610

Ornament Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716

Trumpet banner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

War Fan (Gunbai) with Concealed Spear Blade
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Designs for Ornamental Arabesque Motifs
Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

Combination Ax-Pistol of Grand Duke Ferdinand I de' Medici (1549–1609)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580

Blue Star flag
Unidentified · 1917-1945

Burse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1714–27

Tassel
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 20 matched · 20 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. 1524883 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-03 01:45 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.