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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 Shakyamuni and Scenes of His Previous Lives (Jataka Tales)” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 13:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Buddha Shakyamuni and Scenes of His Previous Lives (Jataka Tales)
Artist not stated in the record · 1573–1619
Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Scene from the Life of the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century
Seated Shijia Buddha (Shakyamuni)
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 582 CE
Footed Bowl with Scenes from the Gauttila Jataka
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th–6th century
Shakyamuni preaching
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Garuda Vanquishing the Naga Clan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century
Seated Prabhutaratna Buddhas (duobao) with seated Shakyamuni (verso)
Artist not stated in the record · 506
Willows and Bridge
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing monks and bodhisattvas (obverse) and donors (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 535
Scene from a Novella
Liberale da Verona
Sakyamuni, Lao Tzu, and Confucius
Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644
A Long Tale for an Autumn Night (Aki no yo nagamonogatari)
Unidentified artist · ca. 1400
The Buddhas Duobao (Sanskrit Prabhutaratna) and Sakyamuni
Artist not stated in the record · 503
"Amr has the Infidels Thrown into the Sea", Folio from a Khavarannama (The Book of the East) of ibn Husam al-Din
Maulana Muhammad Ibn Husam ad Din · ca. 1476–86
The Buddhas Duobao (Sanskrit Prabhutaratna) and Sakyamuni
Artist not stated in the record · 500
The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1745–47
Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE
A Long Tale for an Autumn Night (Aki no yo nagamonogatari)
Unidentified artist · ca. 1400
Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen
Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360) · mid-14th century
A Princely Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century
Sakyamuni Buddha seated on a lion throne
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 480
Two Views from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Kantei · early 16th century
Buddhas of the Past and Present
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475-534 C. E.
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. 26 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. 3110114 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-29 13:08 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.