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. 24 shown for “Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th century

Thousand-armed thousand-eyed bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) 明 佚名 《千手千眼觀世音菩薩像》 軸
Formerly attributed to Fanlong 梵隆 (active mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century?

Standing Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–early 9th century

Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), Head
Artist not stated in the record · 493-534

Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–early 9th century

Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara)
Artist not stated in the record · 700-750

Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century

Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Sanskrit Avalokiteshvara)
Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter of the 8th century

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)
Artist not stated in the record · 700-750 CE

Seated Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)
Artist not stated in the record · 534-550

Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 7th–first half of the 8th century

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)
Artist not stated in the record · 541

Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) with vase and willow twig
Formerly attributed to Yan Liben (ca. 600-674) · 1368-1644

Eleven-Headed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520-530

Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kannon)
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Avalokiteshvara, The Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th century

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)
Artist not stated in the record · 583
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. 88 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2983594 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 15:39 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.