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 “Plate with Buddhist monk Budai” — 52 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 22:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plate with Buddhist monk Budai
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Standing Bodhisattva with two flanking monks and two lions
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 581-618

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

Head of the disciple Ananda
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Buddhist monk Budai
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Buddhist Ceremonial Alms Bowl
Artist not stated in the record

Buddhist monk's robe (kesa 袈裟)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

The Bodhisattva Monju (Manjushri) with Eight Topknots
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Ten Verses on Oxherding
Artist not stated in the record · 1278

Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku
Unidentified artist · Kanzan and Jittoku: probably 14th century; Kannon: probably 15th century

Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi e-den)
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Brocade, silk. In form of a Buddhist monk's stole, patched: Ohi
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi e-den)
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole. Ohi
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Mantras of the Two Realms in Sanskrit Script
Jakugon Taijō · ca. 1767–71

Buddhist tablet
Artist not stated in the record · 535-557

Satsubari, the Second of the Sixteen Arhats
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
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. 12 matched · 12 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. 328984 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-08 22:05 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.