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. 15 shown for “Buddhist Trinity on Cushions” — 52 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:20 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 Trinity on Cushions

Buddhist Trinity on Cushions

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Amphidium lapponicum (Hedw.) Schimp.

Amphidium lapponicum (Hedw.) Schimp.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Attendant

Buddhist Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Circular plaque with Buddhist trinity on obverse and brief inscription on reverse

Circular plaque with Buddhist trinity on obverse and brief inscription on reverse

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 500 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vajradharma Lokeshvara

Vajradharma Lokeshvara

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Statuette: Buddhist trinity

Statuette: Buddhist trinity

Artist not stated in the record · 556

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
Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios, by Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949

Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios

Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949 · 2002; reupholstered 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White Tara, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

White Tara, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Green Tara, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Green Tara, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Manjushri, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Bodhisattva Manjushri, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Mahakala

Mahakala

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Mokugyo

Mokugyo

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary Leaf from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra, by Unidentified

Fragmentary Leaf from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Unidentified · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Mokugyo (木魚)

Mokugyo (木魚)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1889

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 983608 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 21:20 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.