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. 20 shown for “Buddha Vairocana (Dari)” — 48 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 22:07 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 Vairocana (Dari)
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Vairocana Buddha
Unidentified · 9th-10th century

Seated Buddha Vairocana
Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

The Bija A, representing Vairocana (Dainichi)
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th-early 15th century

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Buddha draped in robes portraying the Realms of Desire
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Panel from a Buddhist Ritual Crown Depicting Vairocana
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Lomatogoniopsis alpina T.N. Ho & S.W. liu
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993

Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Aspidotis carlotta-halliae (W.H. Wagner & Gilbert) Lellinger
Artist not stated in the record

Fudō Myōō (Achala Vidyaraja), The Immovable Wisdom King
Unidentified · mid-13th century

Elaeodendron sp.
Artist not stated in the record

Initiation Card (Tsakalis): Vairochana
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Hypericum tetrapetalum Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1900

Illustrated Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · dated 815 AH/1412 CE

Eugenia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/6/88

Spiraea tomentosa L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1895

Vandenboschia maxima (Blume) Copel.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 1955

Polystichum scariosum (Roxb.) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/12/55

Leymus triticoides (Buckley) Pilg.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1900
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 522 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-03 22:07 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.