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. 23 shown for “Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century
Lepisanthes senegalensis (Poir.) Leenh.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1973

Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century

Aglaia sexipetala Griff.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Elaeocarpus miegei Weibel
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Conandrium polyanthum (Lauterb. & K. Schum.) Mez
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

Shiva
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 7th century

Acronychia trifoliolata Zoll. & Moritzi var. trifoliolata
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

Linga with One Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–early 8th century

Myristica globosa Warb.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

Shiva Linga
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Palaquium sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

Linga Altar with Four Faces of Shiva
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1045

Arctogalidia trivirgata
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1901

Shri Shankara Shiva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890–20

Garcinia dulcis (Roxb.) Kurz
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

The Brahmanical Triad: Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Sundamys muelleri
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1901

Śankh
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Macaca fascicularis fascicularis
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1899

Linga Cover with Four Faces of Shiva (Caturmukhalinga)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th 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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2897824 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 02:02 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.