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. 12 shown for “Buddhist Attendant” — 40 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:13 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Colophons to "Vaisravana and Attendants"

Colophons to "Vaisravana and Attendants"

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lohan seated; an attendant kneeling before him, by Formerly attributed to Lu Tanwei (active 460s-early 500s)

Lohan seated; an attendant kneeling before him

Formerly attributed to Lu Tanwei (active 460s-early 500s) · 1279-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lohan under a canopy; a lion, and two attendants

Lohan under a canopy; a lion, and two attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luohan and attendant

Luohan and attendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luohan, attendant, and worshipper under pines, by Formerly attributed to Li Gonglin (傳)李公麟 (ca. 1049-1106)

Luohan, attendant, and worshipper under pines

Formerly attributed to Li Gonglin (傳)李公麟 (ca. 1049-1106) · 1279-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A luohan and an attendant

A luohan and an attendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist tablet: the Buddha Gautama Sakyamuni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities

Buddhist tablet: the Buddha Gautama Sakyamuni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities

Artist not stated in the record · 386-535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaisravana, Guardian King of the North, by Traditionally attributed to Yuchi Yiseng (mid-7th–early 8th century)

Vaisravana, Guardian King of the North

Traditionally attributed to Yuchi Yiseng (mid-7th–early 8th century) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Possibly Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) with attendants

Possibly Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) with attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 555

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luohan holding a fly whisk, with attendant 拂塵羅漢像, by Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760)

Luohan holding a fly whisk, with attendant 拂塵羅漢像

Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Buddha Gautama Sakyamni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities

The Buddha Gautama Sakyamni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 534 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva and attendants

Bodhisattva and attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 14th 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2348 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 05:13 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.