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 with Radiate Halo and Mandorla” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:45 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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 with Radiate Halo and Mandorla

Buddha with Radiate Halo and Mandorla

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha with a standing monk

Seated Buddha with a standing monk

Artist not stated in the record · first half 8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha with radiate halo and mandorla

Buddha with radiate halo and mandorla

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha enthroned on a mat of kusa grass

Buddha enthroned on a mat of kusa grass

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Buddha (fragment)

Standing Buddha (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 538 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crowned Buddha

Crowned Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing bodhisattvas

Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva with Radiate Halo and Mandorla

Bodhisattva with Radiate Halo and Mandorla

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Relief statuette of seated Buddha with nine miniature Buddhas around in low relief on wide mandorla

Relief statuette of seated Buddha with nine miniature Buddhas around in low relief on wide mandorla

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha with Halo and Mandorla

Buddha with Halo and Mandorla

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

Public domainThe Met
Standing Buddha

Standing Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dainichi, the Cosmic Buddha (Mahavairocana)

Dainichi, the Cosmic Buddha (Mahavairocana)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddhas, bodisattva (Samantabhadra) with elephant, and other figures

Seated Buddhas, bodisattva (Samantabhadra) with elephant, and other figures

Artist not stated in the record · 386-535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Buddha with Radiate Combined Halo

Standing Buddha with Radiate Combined Halo

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Shijia Buddha (Shakyamuni)

Seated Shijia Buddha (Shakyamuni)

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE, or possibly modern

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha with a Halo and Flaming Body Mandorla

Buddha with a Halo and Flaming Body Mandorla

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

Public domainThe Met
Standing Maitreya Buddha

Standing Maitreya Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 539

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Crowned and Jeweled Buddha

Seated Crowned and Jeweled Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha with a bodhisattva (fragment)

Buddha with a bodhisattva (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 534-550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Bodhisattva with Combined Halo and Mandorla

Seated Bodhisattva with Combined Halo and Mandorla

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha with figures

Seated Buddha with figures

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 386-535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas

Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhas of the Past and Present

Buddhas of the Past and Present

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475-534 C. E.

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. 64 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. 1521984 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 02:45 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.