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. 24 shown for “Buddhist stele” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Bodhisattva Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–early 8th century
Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520s
Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 9th century
Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 541 CE
Eight Great Events Stele
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century
Seated Shijia Buddha (Shakyamuni)
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE, or possibly modern
Buddha Dipankara (Randengfo)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 495
Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · dated 511
Akshobhya, the Buddha of the Eastern Pure Land
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.
Stele commissioned by Helian Ziyue (赫蓮子悅)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 544 (completed 2nd year of Wuding reign)
Standing Bodhisattva with two flanking monks and two lions
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 581-618
Stele Commissioned by Helian Ziyue (赫蓮子悅) and a Devotional Society of Five Hundred Individuals
Artist not stated in the record · dated 533–43
Seated Buddha with figures
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 386-535
The Visit of Manjushri to Vimalakirti (base of stele)
Artist not stated in the record · inscription dated 533–43
Buddha (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 386-535
Stele with the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) and Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizi)
Artist not stated in the record · mid- to late 7th century
Stele with Bodhisattva Maitreya (Mile); reverse with Buddha Vairochana (Pilushena)
Artist not stated in the record · 557-581
Vajrabhairava
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Four-sided miniature stele
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550
Stele commissioned by members of a devotional society
Artist not stated in the record · dated 528
Seated Buddhas, bodisattva (Samantabhadra) with elephant, and other figures
Artist not stated in the record · 386-535
Mahapratisara, the Buddhist Protectress
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century
Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE
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. 33 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 619 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 12:57 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.