OpenTwo 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. 12 shown for “Buddha flanked by Avalokiteshvara-Padmapani and Vajrapani” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:23 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 flanked by Avalokiteshvara-Padmapani and Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century
Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century
Standing Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century
Amitayus, the Buddha of Eternal Life
Artist not stated in the record · 11th or early 12th century
Buddha Attended by Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 8th century
Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century
Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century
The Transcendent Buddha Ratnasambhava Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century
Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century
Amida, the Buddha of Limitless Light
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250
Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century
The Buddha Shakyamuni, Five Past Buddhas, and Maitreya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 15th 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. 70 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:23 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.