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 “Nagaraja (Serpent King)” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 02:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Nagaraja (Serpent King)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. second quarter of the 5th century

"Le Villageois et le Serpente" from La Fontaine's Fables
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–1800

Standing Nagaraja (Serpent King)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid- 5th century
Trichogramma raoi
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1968

Standing Balarama or Nagaraja (Serpent King)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-5th century
Trichogramma pallidiventris
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1969 to 31 Oct 1969

Nagini (Serpent Queen or Consort of Nagaraja)
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter of the 5th century
Trichogramma agariae
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1969 to 31 May 1969

Nose ornament with intertwined creatures
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE
Trichogramma hesperidis
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1969 to 31 Oct 1969

Red jasper ring stone
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE
Trichogramma guamensis
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1936

Masonic Armchair
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–90

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1838
Buddha Protected by a Seven-headed Naga
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century
![Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8156_03-000003.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

Bowl
Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE
Trichogramma chilotraeae
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1967

Magical Stela with Horus the Child
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Four Drawings of the Myth of Apollo; Decoration of a Wall over a Mantel, Sala di Apollo, Palazzo Cavina, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1816

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Wall Decoration with Oriental Landscape, probably for Conservatory/Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

Venus et Adonis
Stefano della Bella · 1644
Trichogramma poliae
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1968
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. 112 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. 63271 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 2026-08-30 02:19 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.