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. 12 shown for “Seated Buddha” — 40 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 13:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Fragment, showing torso of seated Buddha, a standing Bodhisattva and two cartouches on the front: and left arm of another seated Buddha on the side
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500
Seated Buddha
Unidentified · 618-907
Man
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877
Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 548 CE
Relief statuette of seated Buddha with nine miniature Buddhas around in low relief on wide mandorla
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century
Seated Buddha (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · 534-555
Seated Buddha with a standing monk
Artist not stated in the record · first half 8th century
Seated Buddha with figures
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 386-535
Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas, lions, and figures
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 534-557
Design for a Buffet
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · ca.1680–1710
Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · 581-618
Seated Buddha with two bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 557-581
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12073 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 13:07 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.