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. 12 shown for “Amoghasiddhi, the Transcendent Buddha of the North” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:49 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Amoghasiddhi, the Transcendent Buddha of the North

Amoghasiddhi, the Transcendent Buddha of the North

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

Public domainThe Met
Lotus-Enthroned Buddha Akshobhya, the Transcendent Buddha

Lotus-Enthroned Buddha Akshobhya, the Transcendent Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. second half of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
The Transcendent Buddha Vairochana (?) Seated in Western Fashion

The Transcendent Buddha Vairochana (?) Seated in Western Fashion

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya (?)

Seated Transcendent Buddha Akshobhya (?)

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Vairochana, the Supreme Transcendent Buddha

Vairochana, the Supreme Transcendent Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha Amoghasiddhi with Eight Bodhisattvas

Buddha Amoghasiddhi with Eight Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–50

Public domainThe Met
Buddha Maitreya (Mile)

Buddha Maitreya (Mile)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)

Public domainThe Met
Ritual Crown with the Five Transcendent Buddhas

Ritual Crown with the Five Transcendent Buddhas

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Vairochana, the Transcendent Buddha of the Center

Vairochana, the Transcendent Buddha of the Center

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 174 matched · 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 02:49 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.