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

Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:43 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.
Box with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Box with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th 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
Edge panel

Edge panel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
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
Bowl with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Bowl with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th 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
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

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
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

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

Snuff bottle with eight Buddhist treasures

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

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

Sutra Cover with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra Covers with the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Sutra Covers with the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile panel with phoenixes and lotuses holding the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Textile panel with phoenixes and lotuses holding the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with rocks, flowers, and birds

Dish with rocks, flowers, and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–30

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Knife with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

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. 59 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 356652 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 02:43 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.