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 “Buddha Maitreya (Mile)” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:06 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.
Buddha Maitreya (Mile)

Buddha Maitreya (Mile)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)

Public domainThe Met
Buddha Mile (Maitreya)

Buddha Mile (Maitreya)

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 451

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

Public domainThe Met
The Bodhisattva Mile (Sanskrit Maitreya), seated in "Pensive Pose"

The Bodhisattva Mile (Sanskrit Maitreya), seated in "Pensive Pose"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Maitreya (Mile) altarpiece

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · undated,ca. 525–30

Public domainThe Met
Standing Maitreya Buddha

Standing Maitreya Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Attended by Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya

Buddha Attended by Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya

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

Public domainThe Met
Four-sided miniature stele

Four-sided miniature stele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet

Buddhist tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 535-557

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Stele with Bodhisattva Maitreya (Mile); reverse with Buddha Vairochana (Pilushena)

Stele with Bodhisattva Maitreya (Mile); reverse with Buddha Vairochana (Pilushena)

Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya

Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

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
Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya

Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya

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

Public domainThe Met
Pedestal with Buddha, bodhisattvas, and monks

Pedestal with Buddha, bodhisattvas, and monks

Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

The Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Possibly Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) with attendants

Possibly Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) with attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 555

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Salvia sp.

Salvia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Buddha Shakyamuni, Five Past Buddhas, and Maitreya

The Buddha Shakyamuni, Five Past Buddhas, and Maitreya

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Artemisia herba-alba asso Asso

Artemisia herba-alba asso Asso

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1956

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
Lycium barbarum L.

Lycium barbarum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1956

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 · 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. 211411 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 16:06 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.