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 “Votive Plaque with Seated Bodhisattva” — 60 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Votive Plaque with Seated Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Seated Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Votive Plaque with Seated Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Seated Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Buddha Seated under the Bodhi Tree
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Votive Plaque (Kakebotoke)
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Standing Buddha with bodhisattvas (on one side) and Seated bodhisattva (on other side)
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 581-618

Votive Plaque with Seated Buddhas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 618–906

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 548 CE

Votive Plaque with Seated Buddhas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 618–906

Study for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907 · 1890

Votive Plaque with Seated Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Seated bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Molded Plaque with Seated Buddha and Attendant Bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas, lions, and figures
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 534-557

Votive Plaque with a Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 16th–18th century

Button
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790
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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 4 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. 255631 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 15:38 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.