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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 “Niche with the Seated Bodhisattva Shakyamuni Flanked by Devotees and an Elephant” — 51 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Niche with the Seated Bodhisattva Shakyamuni Flanked by Devotees and an Elephant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Project: The elevation of an altar
Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600

Shakyamuni triad
Unidentified artist · 1565

Design for a Tapestry: Allegory of Africa
Gérard Audran, French, 1640–1703 · 1660-1680

Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1260–70

Ornament Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716-19

Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Arhats
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

Buddha Shakyamuni with attendant bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Sakyamuni on an elephant
Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century

Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute
Kano Tan'yū · mid-17th century

Design for a Niche with a Buffet
Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and the Ten Great Disciples
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE

Amitabha triad
Unidentified artist · ca. 13th century

Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden)
Unknown, Italian · 1725–75

Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality
Wang Zhenpeng · dated 1308

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

Tile with Buddha Triad
Artist not stated in the record · second half 7th century

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

Dessein d'un Poële de terre vernissée en blanc, avec tous ses ornement, et principales moulures dorés
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1757
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2139889 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 01:16 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.