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 “Processional Mask of Hindu Deity” — 53 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Processional Mask of Hindu Deity
Artist not stated in the record · Probably 14th–16th century

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

Processional Mask of Hindu Deity
Artist not stated in the record · Probably 15th–16th century

Menu for the Ball Given by James Hazen Hyde, January 31, 1905
Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · 1905

Processional Mask of Hindu Deity
Artist not stated in the record · Probably 14th–16th century

Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Mask of Bhairava
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–7th century

Design for a Candlestick
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Mask of Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century

Durga fighting the rakshashas Shunga and Nishunga, from a Devi Mahatmya
Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century

Bhairava
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Lit à la Reine
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Hanuman Conversing
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Project for the Knob of a Processional Knot
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of a Deity
Artist not stated in the record · probably 14th–16th century

World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893
United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1893

Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of a Deity
Artist not stated in the record · probably 14th–16th century

World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893
United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1893

Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of Varaha
Artist not stated in the record · probably 14th–16th century

Design for a Processional Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of Ganesha
Artist not stated in the record · probably 14th–16th century

Design for a Processional Cross
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1932

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Processional
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 2859515 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 13:26 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.