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 “Buddha Maitreya (Mile)” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Buddha Maitreya (Mile)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)

Buddha Mile (Maitreya)
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 451

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece
Artist not stated in the record · dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

The Bodhisattva Mile (Sanskrit Maitreya), seated in "Pensive Pose"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) altarpiece
Artist not stated in the record · undated,ca. 525–30

Standing Maitreya Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 539

Buddha Attended by Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 8th century

Four-sided miniature stele
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550

Standing Bodisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Buddhist tablet
Artist not stated in the record · 535-557

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Stele with Bodhisattva Maitreya (Mile); reverse with Buddha Vairochana (Pilushena)
Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya
Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Buddha Amitabha (Amita) and the Eight Great Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 14th century

Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter of the 8th century

Pedestal with Buddha, bodhisattvas, and monks
Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

The Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Possibly Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) with attendants
Artist not stated in the record · 555

Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Salvia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1956

The Buddha Shakyamuni, Five Past Buddhas, and Maitreya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 15th century

Artemisia herba-alba asso Asso
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1956

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

Lycium barbarum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1956
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. 59 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. 211411 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-26 16:06 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.