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 “Figure: within a closed shrine” — 40 records examined, 14 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.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Figure: within a closed shrine
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Hilltop View of Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenji, Sakaue-chobo) No. 117 From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Hiroshi Awatsuji, Japanese, 1929–1995 · 1865

shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Amitabha (Amida), contained within a closed shrine
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Former Hachiman Shrine, Sunamura (Sunamura Moto-Hachiman) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

Shrine and figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Votive Tabernacle Shrine
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Head
Nomoli Style · 15th-17th century

Square
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede, 1804
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1972

Allegorical Figures Representing the Four Continents
Mademoiselle Dobe, French, active ca. 1736 · 1736
![Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8598_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1597
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1788825 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 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.