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. 18 shown for “Wheel of the Buddhist Law (Rinpō)” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wheel of the Buddhist Law (Rinpō)
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Pindola Bharadvaja, the first venerable Luohan 賓度羅跋羅墮闍尊者像
Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760) · 1345

Torso of a Bodhisattva
Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

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

Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1424

Tobacco tin used to store cartridge from raid on Harper's Ferry
J. Wright Co., American · late 19th century - early 20th century
Buddhist Attendant
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Peabody Insurance Company Fire Mark
unknown · 1869

Reliquary(?) with Scenes from the Life of Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th century

William Collins Whitney
Max Cramer, active c. 1902 · 1902

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766

William Collins Whitney
Max Cramer, active c. 1902 · 1902

Vanitas Still Life
Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Mirror clock
Master CR · ca. 1565–70

The Sixteen Luohans
Wu Bin · dated 1591

Vaishravana, the Guardian of Buddhism and Protector of Riches
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)
Kaikei · early 13th century

Bedstead
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1830–60
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. 129 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2984364 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 06:20 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.