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 a Bodhisattva” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:41 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 a Bodhisattva

Bust of a Bodhisattva

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

Public domainThe Met
Head and Bust of a Bodhisattva, by Unidentified

Head and Bust of a Bodhisattva

Unidentified · 618-907

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

Bust of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Temple hanging

Temple hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century (bodhisattva), 18th–19th century (hanging)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva

Bodhisattva

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

Public domainThe Met
Seated Bodhisattva

Seated Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crowned Bodhisattva

Crowned Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–early 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Thousand-armed thousand-eyed bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) 明 佚名 《千手千眼觀世音菩薩像》 軸, by Formerly attributed to Fanlong 梵隆 (active mid-12th century)

Thousand-armed thousand-eyed bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) 明 佚名 《千手千眼觀世音菩薩像》 軸

Formerly attributed to Fanlong 梵隆 (active mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century?

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

Bust of a Bodhisattva Shakyamuni

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), Head

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), Head

Artist not stated in the record · 493-534

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of a Bodhisattva, by Sahri-Bahlol Workshop

Torso of a Bodhisattva

Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · 700-750 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Bodhisattva

Head of a Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · first half 8th century

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

Bust of a Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Manjushri

Bodhisattva Manjushri

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Statuette: a Bodhisattva (Bosatsu)

Statuette: a Bodhisattva (Bosatsu)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

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

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Bodhisattva Mounted on a Marble Column, by Unidentified

Head of a Bodhisattva Mounted on a Marble Column

Unidentified · 619-907

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
Bodhisattva and attendants

Bodhisattva and attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1282

Public domainThe Met
Standing figure of Bodhisattva

Standing figure of Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 8th-9th 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. 2170 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. 3852031 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-26 20:41 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.