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 “Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with bodhisattvas, monks, and lions” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:02 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.

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece
Artist not stated in the record · dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

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

Shakyamuni triad
Unidentified artist · 1565

Shaka (Shakyamuni) Triad
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Monk, probably Ananda (Anantuo)
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Arhats
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Scene from the Life of the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Benevolent Deities
Unidentified artist · late 14th century

Buddha Shakyamuni with attendant bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th 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. 40 matched · 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:02 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.