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 “Daoist deity Zhenwu with two attendants” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:27 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.
Daoist deity Zhenwu with two attendants

Daoist deity Zhenwu with two attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe for a statue

Robe for a statue

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brahma with Attendants and Musicians, by Unidentified artist

Brahma with Attendants and Musicians

Unidentified artist · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine

Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist deity Zhenwu

Daoist deity Zhenwu

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fudo Myo 'o, with attendants Kongara and Seitaka

Fudo Myo 'o, with attendants Kongara and Seitaka

Artist not stated in the record · 14th-15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist deity Zhenwu

Daoist deity Zhenwu

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase

Design for a Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Male Deity Holding Two Ritual Objects

Seated Male Deity Holding Two Ritual Objects

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 10th–first half of the 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque with Deities. Plate 03 “Jupiter,” 2nd state, by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Grotesque with Deities. Plate 03 “Jupiter,” 2nd state

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1540

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

Public domainThe Met
Man at Supper with Attendants, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Man at Supper with Attendants

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1795–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Female Deity Holding a Conch and Branch (?)

Seated Female Deity Holding a Conch and Branch (?)

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 10th–first half of the 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Male Deity Supporting a Vajra on His Finger

Seated Male Deity Supporting a Vajra on His Finger

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 10th–first half of 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Attendants with the Heavenly Horseman, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Two Attendants with the Heavenly Horseman

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Male Deity Holding a Cuirass (Chest Armour)

Seated Male Deity Holding a Cuirass (Chest Armour)

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 10th–first half of the 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish with the Four Continents

Dish with the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with poems, by Gong Xian

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Popular Deities, Sages, and Immortals, by Hanabusa Itcho 英一蝶 (1652-1724)

Popular Deities, Sages, and Immortals

Hanabusa Itcho 英一蝶 (1652-1724) · late 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shakyamuni triad, by Unidentified artist

Shakyamuni triad

Unidentified artist · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Christ With the Instruments of the Flagillation Attended by Two Angels

Christ With the Instruments of the Flagillation Attended by Two Angels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Queen Mother of the West, by Kano Osanobu

Queen Mother of the West

Kano Osanobu · second quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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. 115 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 266225 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-28 13:27 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.