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 “Vase with Buddhist figures” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Design for an Urn, a Pitcher, Vases
Artist not stated in the record · 1620–40

Tara, the Buddhist Savior
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Gourd-Shaped Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1670–1680

Vase with Buddhist figures
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Design for a Vase and Figure Sketches
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

Presentation Vase
Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Design for a Vase
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

Presentation vase
New England Glass Company · 1843

Ornamental detail with winged figure and vase
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Two Panel Designs
Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734-49

Buddhist Deity, Ushnishavijaya (Zun Sheng fo mu)
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Vase Decorated with Figures, Rinceaux, and Festoons
Artist not stated in the record · 1543

Roller (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1740

Vase
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1883

Roller (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory · model ca. 1740, mounts mid-18th century

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Buddha Maitreya (Mile)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)

Copy of the Portland Vase
Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British · 1850–1860

Avalokiteshvara Padmapani
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Ornament Design with Figures
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 470–80

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.
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. 16159 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. 275935 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-28 07:39 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.