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. 20 shown for “Buddha Vairocana (Dari)” — 48 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 22:07 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 Vairocana (Dari)

Buddha Vairocana (Dari)

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Vairocana Buddha, by Unidentified

Vairocana Buddha

Unidentified · 9th-10th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha Vairocana

Seated Buddha Vairocana

Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
The Bija A, representing Vairocana (Dainichi)

The Bija A, representing Vairocana (Dainichi)

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th-early 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha draped in robes portraying the Realms of Desire

Buddha draped in robes portraying the Realms of Desire

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Buddhist Ritual Crown Depicting Vairocana

Panel from a Buddhist Ritual Crown Depicting Vairocana

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Lomatogoniopsis alpina T.N. Ho & S.W. liu

Lomatogoniopsis alpina T.N. Ho & S.W. liu

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect

Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Aspidotis carlotta-halliae (W.H. Wagner & Gilbert) Lellinger

Aspidotis carlotta-halliae (W.H. Wagner & Gilbert) Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fudō Myōō (Achala Vidyaraja), The Immovable Wisdom King, by Unidentified

Fudō Myōō (Achala Vidyaraja), The Immovable Wisdom King

Unidentified · mid-13th century

Public domainThe Met
Elaeodendron sp.

Elaeodendron sp.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Initiation Card (Tsakalis): Vairochana

Initiation Card (Tsakalis): Vairochana

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Hypericum tetrapetalum Lam.

Hypericum tetrapetalum Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrated Manuscript

Illustrated Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · dated 815 AH/1412 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eugenia sp.

Eugenia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/6/88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spiraea tomentosa L.

Spiraea tomentosa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vandenboschia maxima (Blume) Copel.

Vandenboschia maxima (Blume) Copel.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polystichum scariosum (Roxb.) C.V. Morton

Polystichum scariosum (Roxb.) C.V. Morton

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/12/55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leymus triticoides (Buckley) Pilg.

Leymus triticoides (Buckley) Pilg.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1900

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 522 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-03 22:07 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.