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 “The Buddhist Guardian Mahabala” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:53 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.

A luohan and a demon
Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

Kneeling winged monster
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

Vaisravana, Guardian King of the North
Traditionally attributed to Yuchi Yiseng (mid-7th–early 8th century) · 14th century

Luohan laundering 羅漢洗濯圖
Lin Tinggui 林庭桂 (active late 12th century) · 1178

Selaginella hansenii Hieron.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2009

Guardian Fire and Marine Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1867

Selaginella wallacei Hieron.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2009

Seated Luohan
Traditionally attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322) · 16th-17th century

Seated luohan
Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760) · 1345?

Group of deva and devi
Artist not stated in the record · 14th-15th century

Group of Heavenly Beings
Artist not stated in the record · 14th-15th 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. 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. 1183762 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 06:53 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.