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 “Buddhist Parasol Cover” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Buddhist Parasol Cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th or early 20th century

Parasol cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Buddhist Divinity
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1710

Photograph of a woman holding a parasol
Artist not stated in the record · early 1890s

Lotus bowl with Buddhist figures
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Cushion cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1815

Parasol
Artist not stated in the record · fourth quarter 19th century

Box and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Parasol
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–89

Cup and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698-1705

Parasol
Artist not stated in the record · fourth quarter 19th century

Pewter-Mounted Tankard
Johann Gregorius Höroldt, German, 1696 - 1775 · 1732-1735

Parasol
Artist not stated in the record · fourth quarter 19th century

Square fragment: showing Buddhist procession
Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century

Parasol
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–89

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1835

Parasol
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–69

Box and game pieces
Julius Goltzius, Dutch, died ca. 1595 · late 17th century

Parasol
Artist not stated in the record · 1885–95

Steam Locomotive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Parasol
Dupuy · 1885–90

Covered Box on Stand
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

Buddhist Deity, Ushnishavijaya (Zun Sheng fo mu)
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Suite de dessins chinois (Album of Chinoiserie)
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759–71
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. 182 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 36639 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-02 22:51 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.