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 “Amitabha (Amida), contained within a closed shrine” — 59 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:22 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.
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Amitabha (Amida), contained within a closed shrine

Amitabha (Amida), contained within a closed shrine

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Shrine with Virgin and Child

Folding Shrine with Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Amitabha (Jap: Amida)

Amitabha (Jap: Amida)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
'Otua fefine (deity figure), by Ha'apai Islands artist

'Otua fefine (deity figure)

Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Head of Bodhisattva in high relief, with high headdress containing Amida figure

Head of Bodhisattva in high relief, with high headdress containing Amida figure

Artist not stated in the record · 386-535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calligraphic Plaque

Calligraphic Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · probably late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Amitabha (Amida) welcoming souls to paradise

Amitabha (Amida) welcoming souls to paradise

Artist not stated in the record · 14th-15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in a Niche, by Jan van Eyck

Virgin and Child in a Niche

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
Paradise of Amida Buddha (Amitabha), by Kasuga Kaishi

Paradise of Amida Buddha (Amitabha)

Kasuga Kaishi · 794-1185

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Public domainThe Met
Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha

Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kasuga Shrine Mandala (Kasuga miya mandara)

Kasuga Shrine Mandala (Kasuga miya mandara)

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Figure: within a closed shrine

Figure: within a closed shrine

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile from a Mihrab

Tile from a Mihrab

Artist not stated in the record · dated 722 AH/1322–23 CE

Public domainThe Met
Hilltop View of Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenji, Sakaue-chobo) No. 117 From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Hiroshi Awatsuji, Japanese, 1929–1995

Hilltop View of Yushima Tenjin Shrine (Yushima Tenji, Sakaue-chobo) No. 117 From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Hiroshi Awatsuji, Japanese, 1929–1995 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvator Mundi, by Albrecht Dürer

Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Public domainThe Met
Price list for dealers of Poro products, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Price list for dealers of Poro products

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, by Huang Tingjian

Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru

Huang Tingjian · ca. 1095

Public domainThe Met
Price list for dealers of Poro products, by Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s

Price list for dealers of Poro products

Poro College, American, 1918 - 1950s · 1915-1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern

Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)

Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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. 19 matched · 19 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. 1611 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 23:22 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.