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. 15 shown for “Radha as king (Sri Sri Rai Raja)” — 44 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Radha as king (Sri Sri Rai Raja)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885–95

Krishna approaches Radha, folio from a Rasikpriya
Nuruddin · dated 1690

Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a Sundar Shringar
Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778) · ca. 1750-1760

Maharaja Sital Dev in Devotion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Krishna playing with the gopis, folio from a Rasikpriya
Ruknuddin (active ca. 1650-1697) · dated 1686 (Samvat 1743)
Ternstroemia emarginata (Gardner) Choisy
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Oct 1973

Diospyros insignis Thwaites
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/2/83

Nymphoides sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1973

Acrotrema lanceolatum Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1855

Uniyala wightiana (Arn.) H. Rob. & Skvarla
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Oct 1973

Torenia travancorica Gamble
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1974
Aporosa lanceolata Müll. Arg.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1974

Cissus gardneri Thwaites
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Oct 1973

Hopea jucunda Thwaites
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1970
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 353730 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-29 02:23 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.