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 “Bust of Vishnu” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:05 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.
Bust of Vishnu

Bust of Vishnu

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

Public domainThe Met
Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu

Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · dated August 12, 1105

Public domainThe Met
Lakshmi massaging the foot of Vishnu, by Composition attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778)

Lakshmi massaging the foot of Vishnu

Composition attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778) · ca. 1765-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu

Vishnu

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

Public domainThe Met
Head cloth (kain kepala)

Head cloth (kain kepala)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu

Vishnu

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

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu

Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. second half of the 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fylfot motif

Fylfot motif

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Head cloth (kain kepala)

Head cloth (kain kepala)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Vishnu

Bust of Vishnu

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

Public domainThe Met
Sarong

Sarong

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Vishnu

Enthroned Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 8th–early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a Bodhisattva

Bust of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Kain panjang (long sarong)

Kain panjang (long sarong)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Vishnu as Keshava, by Dasoja of Balligrama

Standing Vishnu as Keshava

Dasoja of Balligrama · first quarter of the 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Square textile

Square textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Vishnu

Standing Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. third quarter 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Head cloth (kain kepala)

Head cloth (kain kepala)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Hevajra

Bust of Hevajra

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fylfot motif

Fylfot motif

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th 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. 2166 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. 2858552 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 21:05 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.