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 “Bowl with the Eight Buddhist Treasures” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:49 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.
Bowl with the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Bowl with the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl and lid, by Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory)

Bowl and lid

Metaale Pot [de] (the Metal Pot Factory) · ca. 1690–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tara, the Buddhist Savior

Tara, the Buddhist Savior

Artist not stated in the record · 14th 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
Cup stand with eight treasures

Cup stand with eight treasures

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Kabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych), by Kininaga, d. ca. 1820

Kabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych)

Kininaga, d. ca. 1820 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges), by Ogata Kōrin

Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)

Ogata Kōrin · after 1709

Public domainThe Met
Monteith

Monteith

Artist not stated in the record · 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Maya artist(s)

Bowl

Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece), by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843

Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece)

Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Edge panel

Edge panel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Eagle, by Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan

Bowl with Eagle

Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chandelier

Design for a Chandelier

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Buddhist Assembly

Bowl with Buddhist Assembly

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Buddha Amitabha (Amita) and the Eight Great Bodhisattvas

Buddha Amitabha (Amita) and the Eight Great Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle

Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Public domainThe Met
Orfèvre Grossier, Ouvrages, by J.R. Lucotte, French, 1733 – 1784

Orfèvre Grossier, Ouvrages

J.R. Lucotte, French, 1733 – 1784 · 1762

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

Bowl with imaginary composite flowers

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Bowl

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Bowl with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
China salad plates from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

China salad plates from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with eight Buddhist treasures

Bowl with eight Buddhist treasures

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Tableware, Plate XVI of Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils., by William Chambers, British, b. Sweden, 1726–1796

Designs for Tableware, Plate XVI of Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils.

William Chambers, British, b. Sweden, 1726–1796 · 1757

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. 659 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1308399 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 05:49 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.