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. 11 shown for “Buddhist trinity” — 42 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:20 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 Trinity on Cushions
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Statuette: Buddhist trinity
Artist not stated in the record · 556
Tile with Buddhist Trinity in Relief
Artist not stated in the record

Circular plaque with Buddhist trinity on obverse and brief inscription on reverse
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 500 CE

Buddhist trinity
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 550 CE

Dichodontium pellucidum (Hedw.) Schimp.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1991

Grimmia torquata Drummond
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 2009

Grimmia ramondii (Lam. & A. DC.) Margad.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 2009

Pyrola asarifolia Michx.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1948

Gayophytum heterozygum F. H. Lewis & Szweyk.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1948

Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.) Scop. subsp. angustifolium
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1948
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3536 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 21:20 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.