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 “Miniature stele with Buddha” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:44 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 with Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · dated 574 (5th year of Wuping reign)

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

Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 548 CE

Buddha flanked by Avalokiteshvara-Padmapani and Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · dated 511

Buddha Dipankara (Randengfo)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 495

Seated Shijia Buddha (Shakyamuni)
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE, or possibly modern

Good Shepherd
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with bodhisattvas, monks, and lions
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

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

Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Seated Buddha with two bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

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

Akshobhya, the Buddha of the Eastern Pure Land
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing monks and bodhisattvas (obverse) and donors (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 535

Miniature Shrine with the Enthroned Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Relief statuette of seated Buddha with nine miniature Buddhas around in low relief on wide mandorla
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece
Artist not stated in the record · dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

Seated Buddha with figures
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 386-535

Stele with the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) and Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizi)
Artist not stated in the record · mid- to late 7th century

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas, lions, and figures
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 534-557
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. 49 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. 251023 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-29 10:44 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.