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. 12 shown for “Pair of Buddhist Manuscript Covers” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Pair of Buddhist Manuscript Covers
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right)
An Gyeon · ca. 1450–1500

Pair of Manuscript Covers
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Deities
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Deities
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century

Buddhist Deity, Ushnishavijaya (Zun Sheng fo mu)
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Pair of Manuscript Covers
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Pair of Manuscript Covers Illustrating Sadaprarudita’s Self-Sacrifice
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
Pair of Hindu Manuscript Covers
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

The Buddha Shakyamuni, Five Past Buddhas, and Maitreya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 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. 125 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 05:25 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.