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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. 14 shown for “Devi vanquishes the demon Nisumbha and his armies; folio from a Devi Mahatmya series.” — 47 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Devi vanquishes the demon Nisumbha and his armies; folio from a Devi Mahatmya series.
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Durga fighting the rakshashas Shunga and Nishunga, from a Devi Mahatmya
Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century
Durga, Kali, and the Matrikas Battle the Demon Raktabija: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya
Nainsukh · ca. 1780
Rukmini elopes with Krishna, folio from a Bhagavata Purana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Durga Confronts the Army of the Demon Chikshura: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century
Durga and Kali Approach the Gathered Armies of Chanda and Munda: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655
Durga Confronts the Buffalo Demon Mahisha: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Dalechampia affinis Müll. Arg.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1980
Durga, Kali, and Five Matrikas Battle the Daitya Army of the Demon Shumbha: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Campylopus goughii (Mitt.) A. Jaeger
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1965
The Goddess Bhairavi Devi with Shiva
Payag · ca. 1630–35
Jarasandha’s army advances toward Krishna and Balarama, folio from a Mahabharata
Attributed to Purkhu (active ca. 1780-ca. 1820) · ca. 1800-1815
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3249453 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 16:42 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.