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 “Rank Badge with Bird and Flower Motifs” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rank Badge with Bird and Flower Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Miniature tabard
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1736–52, with later additions

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Dish in the shape of a leaf
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

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

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Bowl with Deer and Phoenix Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

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

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

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

Pipa (琵琶 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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

Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)
Paul Gudin Le Jeune · clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty, 1368–1644
Rank Badge with Egret
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Rank badge (buzi)
Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty 1368–1644
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. 488 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. 2077412 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 07:08 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.