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 “Bodhisattva” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:12 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.
Bodhisattva

Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Temple hanging

Temple hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century (bodhisattva), 18th–19th century (hanging)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva

Bodhisattva

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

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva, by Unidentified (Chinese)

Bodhisattva

Unidentified (Chinese) · ca. 900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Bodhisattva

Seated Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Manjushri

Bodhisattva Manjushri

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · 700-750 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century

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

Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)

Artist not stated in the record · 794-1185

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crowned Bodhisattva

Crowned Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–early 4th century

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

Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)

Artist not stated in the record · 1185-1333

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avaolkiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avaolkiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1282

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva

Standing Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–560

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattvas

Standing Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 587

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

The Bodhisattva Jizō

Intan · 1291

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Bodhisattva

Head of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · first half 8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

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

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva

Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 552-645

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Vajrapani

The Bodhisattva Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva

Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century; detached throne, modern

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. 667 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. 119 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-26 22:12 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.