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 “Female Playing Badminton” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta statuette of a woman playing the tambourine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–480 BCE

Female Playing Badminton
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Female figure playing the bass-viol
Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier · before 1903

Four of Hearts
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Female figure playing violin
Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier · before 1903

Fan leaf
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Study of a Female Nude
Henri Lehmann · 1840

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

Female musician
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Interworld Marketing Inc. badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · after 1970

Female musician
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Design for a Chimneypiece at Badminton House, Gloucestershire
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1773

Female Musicians
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Three of Diamonds
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Female Musicians
Charles K. Wilkinson · 1921–1922; original ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Ace of Hearts
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Seated female figure
Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Six of Clubs
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Miniature female effigy
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Queen of Diamonds
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Aegis of a female goddess
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Queen of Spades
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Female musician with lute
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Queen of Hearts
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 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. 444 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 548530 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-02 22:18 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.