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. 22 shown for “Buddhist Shrine” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:35 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 Shrine
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Cyrtomium falcatum (L. f.) C. Presl
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1945

Panel of a Portable Buddhist Shrine with Dancer and Musician Celebrants
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Leptochilus ellipticus (Thunb.) Noot.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1945

Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Buddhist tablet in the form of a miniature shrine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520

Crowned Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Buddhist tablet: seated central figure flanked by monk and Bodhisattva on either hand; rectangular base, and figure of Buddha in sunken relief on reverse
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Enthroned Buddha with Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Small stupa
Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

Panel of a Portable Shrine
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Figure: within a closed shrine
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Three-Sided Section of a Portable Shrine with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

A group of luohan
Ding Yunpeng (1547-1628) · 1613

Crowned and Jeweled Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · early 11th century

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

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 548 CE

Finial of a Buddhist Monk’s Staff (Shakujō)
Artist not stated in the record

Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

Panel of a Portable Shrine with Karttikeya, the God of War
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Shrine Relief Fragment Depicting Ashtamahabhaya Tara, the Buddhist Savioress
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th 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. 563 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. 1318 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 19:35 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.