OpenTwo 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 “Preaching Buddha” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Buddha Preaching
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–early 9th century
Buddha Amitabha (Amita) and the Eight Great Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 14th century
Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century
Shakyamuni preaching
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Preaching Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century
Hōrōkaku Mandara
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
Enthroned Preaching Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th century
Saint John Preaching
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Buddha Preaching
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century
Paul Preaching in Athens, after Raphael
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820
Buddha Preaching the First Sermon at Sarnath
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century
John the Baptist Preaching
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1587
Seated Preaching Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century
Saint Paulinus Preaching
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780
Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century
John the Baptist Preaching the Desert
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Buddha Preaching the Dharma (Buddhist Law)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Saint Paul Preaching, after Raphael
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820
Buddha Preaching the First Sermon Attended by Maitreya and Padmapani
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century
![The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist [above]; John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9640_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist [above]; John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before
Seated Protective Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century
Christ Preaching (The Hundred Guilder Print)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1649
An Arhat, a Buddhist Saint
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Saint John Preaching, Probably a Page from a Drawing Book
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780
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. 36 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. 617 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-26 20:17 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.