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 “Rondel with a Racing Male Deity Cradling His Consort (Probably Shiva and Parvati)” — 43 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rondel with a Racing Male Deity Cradling His Consort (Probably Shiva and Parvati)
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Sadashiva worshipped by Parvati
Attributed to Devidasa (Indian, active 1690-1695) · ca. 1690

Spearhead
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Shiva and Parvati on a tiger skin: Anakūl Nayaka folio from a Rasamanjari
Attributed to Golu, son of Devidasa · ca. 1710 - ca. 1715

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Anémones (Anemones) for the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1821–24

Portrait
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

Huilier
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Huilier
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

A Prince and his consort
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Porte-Cochère Design
Laurent Francart, French, active 1681-1690 · 1707-1742

Holy Bible
Artist not stated in the record · 1869

The Descent of the Ganges
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3316139 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 09:52 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.