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 “Ritual Crown with the Five Transcendent Buddhas” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:32 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.

Ritual Crown with the Five Transcendent Buddhas
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Akshobhya, the Transcendent Buddha of the East
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Vairochana, the Supreme Transcendent Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Vairochana, the Transcendent Buddha of the Center
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–early 10th century

Amoghasiddhi, the Transcendent Buddha of the North
Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–early 11th century

The Buddha Shakyamuni, Five Past Buddhas, and Maitreya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 15th century

Vajracharya Priest’s Crown
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1717

Torah crown (keter)
Andrea Zambelli "L'Honnesta" · ca. 1740–50

Vajracharya Priest’s Crown
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–early 14th century

Panel of a Buddhist Ritual Crown with Ratnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Seated Male Deity Holding Two Ritual Objects
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 10th–first half of the 11th century

The Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future
Artist not stated in the record · 11th 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. 78 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 00:32 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.