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. 24 shown for “The Birth of the Buddha” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century
Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen
Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360) · mid-14th century
Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Buddha draped in robes portraying the Realms of Desire
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577
Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · mid-7th century
Shakyamuni preaching
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE
Head of a Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · dated 707
Head of a Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century
Head of a Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500
Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century
Head of a Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500
Crowned Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century
Buddha Amitabha (Amita) and the Eight Great Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 14th century
Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century
Scenes Related to the Birth of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France for a Calendar or Almanac
Artist not stated in the record · 1781–82
Standing Buddha Offering Protection
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century
Buddhas of the Past and Present
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475-534 C. E.
The Birth of the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
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
Standing Indra
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century
Head of the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 8th 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. 2065 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. 2982678 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 12:09 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.