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. 22 shown for “Buddhist Shrine” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:35 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.
Buddhist Shrine

Buddhist Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtomium falcatum (L. f.) C. Presl

Cyrtomium falcatum (L. f.) C. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of a Portable Buddhist Shrine with Dancer and Musician Celebrants

Panel of a Portable Buddhist Shrine with Dancer and Musician Celebrants

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Leptochilus ellipticus (Thunb.) Noot.

Leptochilus ellipticus (Thunb.) Noot.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet in the form of a miniature shrine

Buddhist tablet in the form of a miniature shrine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crowned Buddha

Crowned Buddha

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet: seated central figure flanked by monk and Bodhisattva on either hand; rectangular base, and figure of Buddha in sunken relief on reverse

Buddhist tablet: seated central figure flanked by monk and Bodhisattva on either hand; rectangular base, and figure of Buddha in sunken relief on reverse

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Buddha with Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Enthroned Buddha with Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Small stupa

Small stupa

Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of a Portable Shrine

Panel of a Portable Shrine

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

Public domainThe Met
Figure: within a closed shrine

Figure: within a closed shrine

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three-Sided Section of a Portable Shrine with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha

Three-Sided Section of a Portable Shrine with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha

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

Public domainThe Met
A group of luohan, by Ding Yunpeng (1547-1628)

A group of luohan

Ding Yunpeng (1547-1628) · 1613

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

Crowned and Jeweled Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · early 11th 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
Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 548 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Finial of a Buddhist Monk’s Staff (Shakujō)

Finial of a Buddhist Monk’s Staff (Shakujō)

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of a Portable Shrine with Karttikeya, the God of War

Panel of a Portable Shrine with Karttikeya, the God of War

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Shrine Relief Fragment Depicting Ashtamahabhaya Tara, the Buddhist Savioress

Shrine Relief Fragment Depicting Ashtamahabhaya Tara, the Buddhist Savioress

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

Public domainThe Met
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. 563 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. 1318 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 19:35 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.