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. 12 shown for “Drum panel with scenes of the Great Departure and Temptation of the Buddha” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Drum panel with scenes of the Great Departure and Temptation of the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · first half 3rd century CE

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

The Temptation
Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

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

Three-Sided Section of a Portable Shrine with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha’s descent from Trayastrimsa Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd century CE

The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
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. 424 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:05 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.