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. 16 shown for “Miniature Stele” — 44 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Miniature Stele
Artist not stated in the record

Four-sided miniature stele
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550

Miniature stele with Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · dated 574 (5th year of Wuping reign)

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520s

Vishnu Accompanied by Lakshmi and Sarasvati
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
Bromus benekenii (Lange) Trimen
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1925

Candi Jago Plaque of the Bodhisattva Amoghapasa
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century, probably 1286–92

Votive Stele of Prince Lo-an
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1700-1900

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 541 CE

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · dated 511

Leptolyngbya schmidlei (Limanowska) Anagn. & Komarek
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2013

Portrait of a Cardinal
Artist not stated in the record · 1620-1640

Design for a Sepulchral Monument
Unknown, Italian · 1620-1630

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument
Matteo Torelli, Italian · 1822

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

Seated Buddhas, bodisattva (Samantabhadra) with elephant, and other figures
Artist not stated in the record · 386-535
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3567 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-03 10:43 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.