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 “Krishna in the Form of Shri Nathji” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:40 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.

Krishna in the Form of Shri Nathji
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Dharma-wheel pilaster (dharmacakrastambha)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 3rd century CE

Priests before Shri Nathji
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

The Gopis Plead with Krishna to Return Their Clothing: Folio from "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana
Master of the "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana · ca. 1560–65

Krishna (Shri Shri Guranga Avatara)
Artist not stated in the record · 1895

Shri Shri Durga
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885–95

Shri Sheshanarayana
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–85

Krishna as the Lord of the World (Shri Shri Jagannatha)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Krishna Subdues the Serpent Kaliya in the Yamuna River: Illustration from a Bhagavata Purana Series
Nainsukh · ca. 1780

Varaha Triumphant
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Krishna Venugopala and Radha in a wooded glade (Shri Shri Radha Krishna)
Krishnahari Das · 1880
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. 74 matched · 24 examined · 8 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 2026-08-27 20:40 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.