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. 15 shown for “Bodhidharma” — 28 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:54 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.
Bodhidharma in meditation

Bodhidharma in meditation

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhidharma, by Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)

Bodhidharma

Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)

Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Bodhidharma 達摩圖像, by Traditionally attributed to Wuzhun Shifan (傳) 無準師範 (1178-1249)

Portrait of Bodhidharma 達摩圖像

Traditionally attributed to Wuzhun Shifan (傳) 無準師範 (1178-1249) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhidharma, by Unkoku Tōgan

Bodhidharma

Unkoku Tōgan · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi on a reed

Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi on a reed

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhidharma, by Kano Takanobu

Bodhidharma

Kano Takanobu · ca. 1610–1618

Public domainThe Met
Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Table screen with Bodhidharma and landscape of Jinshan Island

Table screen with Bodhidharma and landscape of Jinshan Island

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Woman with Flower Basket of Plum Blossoms (obverse); Four Large Characters (reverse), by Kafu Mochikaze

Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Woman with Flower Basket of Plum Blossoms (obverse); Four Large Characters (reverse)

Kafu Mochikaze · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Six Immortal Poets, by Kajikawa School

Case (Inrō) with Design of Six Immortal Poets

Kajikawa School · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhidharma in Red Robes, by Kano Masanobu 狩野正信

Bodhidharma in Red Robes

Kano Masanobu 狩野正信 · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Bodhidharma, by Hakuin Ekaku

Portrait of Bodhidharma

Hakuin Ekaku · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhidharma in Red Robes, by Hasegawa Hakujun

Bodhidharma in Red Robes

Hasegawa Hakujun · 1671

Public domainThe Met
Bodhidharma Seated in Meditation

Bodhidharma Seated in Meditation

Artist not stated in the record

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. 40 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:54 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.