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. 21 shown for “Devidasa of Nurpur” — 56 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shiva and Parvati Playing Chaupar: Folio from a Rasamanjari Series
Devidasa of Nurpur · dated 1694–95

Shiva and Parvati on a tiger skin: Anakūl Nayaka folio from a Rasamanjari
Attributed to Golu, son of Devidasa · ca. 1710 - ca. 1715

A Courtesan and Her Lover Estranged by a Quarrel: Page from a Rasamanjari series
Devidasa of Nurpur · dated 1694–95

Sadashiva worshipped by Parvati
Attributed to Devidasa (Indian, active 1690-1695) · ca. 1690

Lakshmana and Sugriva Being Carried by Palanquin to Receive Rama's Blessings: Folio from the dispersed “Mankot" Ramayana series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710–25

A forlorn lover, fragment from a Rasamanjari
Attributed to the workshop of Golu, son of Devidasa · ca. 1710-ca. 1715

Sanveri Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1710

Achillea cuspidata Wall.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1856 to 20 Jul 1856

King Dasaratha and His Retinue Proceed to Rama's Wedding: Folio from the Shangri Ramayana Series (Style II)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Polemonium caeruleum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1856 to 20 Jul 1856

Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Veronica undulata Wall.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1938

Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Casearia tomentosa Roxb. var. tomentosa
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/5/62

Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Carissa spinarum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1938

Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1938

Setaria intermedia Roem. & Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1917

Selaginella subdiaphana (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) Spring
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1917

Ocimum americanum L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/10/62
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 7 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2858399 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-27 06:11 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.