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 “Arhat holding a shoe” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Arhat holding a shoe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Study of Hands of a Violin Player
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · March 1878

Shoes
Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Photograph of Edward, Walter, and Kathleen Mitchell holding a kitten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

Buddhist disciple, or luohan, holding a peach
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Plate 51, Costume Parisien (Parisian Costume), Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion)
Carle Vernet, French, 1758–1836 · 1807

An Arhat, a Buddhist Saint
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

"Brownies" Characters
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1894

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Pair of women's silver spurs
Artist not stated in the record · 1852

The Arhat Vajraputra
Unidentified artist · 15th century

Photographic print of a man and a woman standing outside
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

Arhat (Luohan)
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Interior Scene with Women and a Child
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

Bronze statuette of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Terracotta statuette of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century BCE

Jews at the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1868

Limestone statuette of a temple girl
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE–1st century CE

LE MAITRE D'ARMES
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

Shoe Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–1400

Advertisement for Beer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1898

Shoe Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · late 600's

Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen
Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360) · mid-14th 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. 157 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 1768356 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 07:39 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.