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 a Pair of Cranes” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:34 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 a Pair of Cranes
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Rank badge (buzi)
Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty 1368–1644

Cranes
Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 · late 1780s

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · before 1644

Cranes
Soga Shōhaku · ca. 1760

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty, 1368–1644

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Fragment of a rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–17th century

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

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

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

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

Pair of bronze cista (toiletries box) feet with panthers attacking cranes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–300 BCE

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

Pilgrim's badge
Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

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

Pair of Dagger-Axes (Ge)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

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

Rank Badge
Artist not stated in the record

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

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

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

Diadem with a Pair of Gazelle Heads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 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. 336 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. 3880968 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 11:34 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.