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. 20 shown for “Votive Tablet with Buddhist Triad” — 48 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:27 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 Tablet with Buddhist Triad
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Plinth with four repeat images of Buddhist triads
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Votive tablet with Buddhist triad
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Buddhist tablet
Artist not stated in the record · 535-557

Votive tablet with Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · dated 526 (2nd year of Xiaochang reign)

Small soapstone tablet, with pierced relief of Manjusri on lion
Artist not stated in the record · dated 543

Votive Tablet with Twenty-Five Buddhas
Artist not stated in the record

Buddhist tablet: the Buddha Gautama Sakyamuni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities
Artist not stated in the record · 386-535
Tile with Buddhist images
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Buddhist tablet
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 574 CE

Tile with Buddhist images
Artist not stated in the record · 17–18th century

Buddhist tablet in the form of a miniature shrine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520

Votive Plaque (Tsa Tsa) Depicting a Stupa
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Stele with Bodhisattva Maitreya (Mile); reverse with Buddha Vairochana (Pilushena)
Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

Miniature stele with Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · dated 574 (5th year of Wuping reign)

Buddhist tablet: standing figure in high relief; right hand missing
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 551 CE

Buddhist tablet
Artist not stated in the record · Dated 536 CE

Buddhist tablet: seated central figure flanked by monk and Bodhisattva on either hand; rectangular base, and figure of Buddha in sunken relief on reverse
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Buddhist triad of Shakyamuni, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra
Kose Arishige 臣勢有重(有茂) (born 1300) · 16th century

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church
Artist not stated in the record · 20th 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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 251004 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-29 08:27 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.