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. 19 shown for “Sita Ram” — 50 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
View of a Mosque and Gateway at Motijhil
Sita Ram · ca. 1814–23

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1938

Building the Bridge to Lanka
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

Building the Bridge to Lanka
Seu Family · mid-18th century

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1973

A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses
Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya · ca. 1845

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1970 to 20 Oct 1970

Sacrificial Sword (Rāmdāo)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1970

Sacrificial Sword (Kartrī or Churī)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

Sacrificial Knife
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Indothemis limbata sita
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1973

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1973

Prodasineura sita
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1973

Indothemis limbata sita
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1973
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1052 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 07:45 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.