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. 23 shown for “Bowl with Buddhist Assembly” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 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.
Bowl with Buddhist Assembly

Bowl with Buddhist Assembly

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · 482

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with imaginary composite flowers

Bowl with imaginary composite flowers

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Green Corn Dance, Hidatsa, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Green Corn Dance, Hidatsa

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835-1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lotus bowl with Buddhist figures

Lotus bowl with Buddhist figures

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Cake Tongs With Caterpillar, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Pair of Cake Tongs With Caterpillar

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

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

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kannon)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kannon)

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

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

Public domainThe Met
Covered Box on Stand

Covered Box on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

Public domainThe Met
Standing bodhisattvas with monks, Pratyekabuddhas, lions, and apasaras

Standing bodhisattvas with monks, Pratyekabuddhas, lions, and apasaras

Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with two boys and lotuses

Bowl with two boys and lotuses

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with decorative medallions

Bowl with decorative medallions

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with wheel-cut facets

Bowl with wheel-cut facets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–7th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist altarpiece

Buddhist altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · 597

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
Dessert Spoon with Lizard and Moth, by Charles Victor Gibert, French

Dessert Spoon with Lizard and Moth

Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar bowl, by Tiffany & Co.

Sugar bowl

Tiffany & Co. · ca. 1880

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. 1195 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 273146 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 23:10 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.