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. 24 shown for “Khambhavati Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Khambhavati Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675

Lalit Ragini, folio from a Ragamala
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605-1610

Vilaval Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Kakubha Ragini, folio from a Ragamala
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Kedar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Ruknuddin · ca. 1690–95

Gauri Ragini, folio from a Ragamala
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Nata Ragina: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Mohamed · 1714

Vilaval Ragini
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Bangali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · 1709

Bangali Ragini
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Desvarati Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · 1605–06

Kamod Ragini
Attributed to the Sirohi Master (active ca. 1670-1690) · ca. 1670-1690

Setmalar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

Desavarati Ragini
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

Vilaval Ragini, from a Ragamala
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690-95

Bairadi Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605–6

Malashri Ragini from a Ragmala series
Artist not stated in the record · 1640

Bhairavi Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50

Kamod Ragini, folio from a Ragamala
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770-1775

Ramkali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605–06

Bhairavi Ragini (a musical mode): three figures before a shrine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725
Ramkali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1680

Gauri Ragini, folio from a Ragamala
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625-1630
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. 44 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. 3977587 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 08:09 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.