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 “Dharmapala Standing on a Lion” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dharmapala Standing on a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 16th century

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Lion
Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

Fountain; elevation of a church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1792–1795

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1813

Standing Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. third quarter 10th century

Design for a Ewer with Handle in the Shape of a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1600

Teakettle and spirit lamp with stand
Paul de Lamerie · 1744/45

Design for a Sarcophagus
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Designs for a Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Throne
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1810

Lion Ornament
Asante-Akan artist · 19th century

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Lion Ornament
Asante-Akan artist · 19th century

Fountains
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

Senwosret III as a Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

Design for the Decoration of a Panel
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1775-1790

Vaishravana, the Guardian of Buddhism and Protector of Riches
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Design for a Water Urn with Stand
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–35

Two-Sided Pendant with the Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lion’s Den
Artist not stated in the record · 1200 or later

Design for a Candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810
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. 373 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2460327 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 04:24 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.