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. 14 shown for “Finial with the Earth Goddess, Nan Brah Dharani, and Standing Vishnu” — 42 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:20 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 with the Earth Goddess, Nan Brah Dharani, and Standing Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. first half of the 13th century

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

Demons on an Elephant with Nan Brah Dharani, the Earth Goddess, Wringing Water from Her Hair
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Egg cups and stand
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Four Antique Goddesses
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850
![Salon rond de Six Portiques de treillage au Jardin du H[---] President Nicolaï, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-31957_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Salon rond de Six Portiques de treillage au Jardin du H[---] President Nicolaï
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1658–1703

Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Sallon de treillage du petit bois de Sceaux
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1658–1703

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

Kettle and stand
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1885

Seated Hindu Goddess
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Design for an Urn on a Stand
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825

Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Cup and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698-1705
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1950436 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-04 01:20 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.