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 monk Budai” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 20:09 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 monk Budai
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Plate with Buddhist monk Budai
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Buddhist monk's robe (kesa 袈裟)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Monk
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Alms bowl for a Buddhist monk
Artist not stated in the record

Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō Kesa) with Stylized Chinese Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Brocade, silk. In form of a Buddhist monk's stole, patched: Ohi
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Monk Holding a Lotus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–7th century

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō Kesa) with Peony and Paulownia Arabesques
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole. Ohi
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

The Buddhist Disciple Phra Sankachai
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 17th century

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha
Artist not stated in the record · early to mid-12th century

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

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

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe; patched; kesa
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
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. 376 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1150 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-08 20:09 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.