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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. 23 shown for “Finial for a Buddhist staff (khatvanga)” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Finial for a Buddhist staff (khatvanga)
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century
Staff finial
Bamana artist · Early to mid-19th century
Finial of a Buddhist Monk’s Staff (Shakujō)
Artist not stated in the record
Prayer staff finial
Ethiopian Orthodox · 17th century
Staff finial with seated woman
"Master of the Frontal Concentric Circles" · 19th century
ECUELLES
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805
Bird Staff Head
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE
Lit en chaire à precher
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
Owl Staff Head
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE
Lit à l’Antique
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779-90
Staff with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 19th century
Urn Finial
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1850
A Pair of Lotus Finials
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650–1680
Lit à Chaire à Precher
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779-90
The Bodhisattva Jizō
Intan · 1291
Lit à la Polonaise à tombeau retroussé à la Chinoise
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
Staff finial with seated ọ́bà
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 18th–19th century
Rampes d’escaliers d’hôtel
Alexandre Tessier, French, active 1800 – 1830 · early 19th century
Palanquin Finial
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650–1680
SUCRIERS DE SERVICE
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805
Palanquin Finials with Lotuses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650–80
SUCRIERS DE SERVICE
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805
Ritual Staff (Shakujō)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
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. 61 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 2073477 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 23:20 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.