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 “Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:06 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.

Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Head
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Smiling figure (Sonriente)
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Crowned Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century

Bird pendant
Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Buddha Shakyamuni
Artist not stated in the record · 12th 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. 2895 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 16:06 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.