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 “Buddhist monk Budai” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 20:09 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 monk Budai

Buddhist monk Budai

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe

Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with Buddhist monk Budai

Plate with Buddhist monk Budai

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist monk's robe (kesa 袈裟)

Buddhist monk's robe (kesa 袈裟)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)

Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monk

Monk

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)

Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alms bowl for a Buddhist monk

Alms bowl for a Buddhist monk

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)

Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō Kesa) with Stylized Chinese Flowers

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō Kesa) with Stylized Chinese Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. In form of a Buddhist monk's stole, patched: Ohi

Brocade, silk. In form of a Buddhist monk's stole, patched: Ohi

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monk Holding a Lotus

Monk Holding a Lotus

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

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō Kesa) with Peony and Paulownia Arabesques

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō Kesa) with Peony and Paulownia Arabesques

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole. Ohi

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole. Ohi

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Buddhist Disciple Phra Sankachai

The Buddhist Disciple Phra Sankachai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

Artist not stated in the record · early to mid-12th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched: Kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan

Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

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
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe; patched; kesa

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe; patched; kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

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. 376 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1150 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-08 20:09 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.