OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Alms bowl for a Buddhist monk” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 18:31 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Alms bowl for a Buddhist monk

Alms bowl for a Buddhist monk

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. In form of a Buddhist monk's stole, patched: Ohi

Brocade, silk. In form of a Buddhist monk's stole, patched: Ohi

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan

Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Buddhist Assembly

Bowl with Buddhist Assembly

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Meditating Buddha with Alms Bowl Enthroned in a Foliated Niche

Meditating Buddha with Alms Bowl Enthroned in a Foliated Niche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 10th–early 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Ceremonial Alms Bowl

Buddhist Ceremonial Alms Bowl

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe; patched; kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe; patched; kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

Artist not stated in the record · early to mid-12th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟. One patch partly cut away

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟. One patch partly cut away

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Jizō, by Intan

The Bodhisattva Jizō

Intan · 1291

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe. Patched: Kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe. Patched: Kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist monk Budai

Buddhist monk Budai

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

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)

Helmet of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 277 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. 2087308 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 2026-09-08 18:31 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.