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 “Jizō, the Bodhisattva of the Earth Store” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:15 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.
Jizō, the Bodhisattva of the Earth Store

Jizō, the Bodhisattva of the Earth Store

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

Public domainThe Met
Miracles performed by the bodhisattva Jizo (copy of a section of a handscroll), by Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)

Miracles performed by the bodhisattva Jizo (copy of a section of a handscroll)

Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 1627

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store (Kshitigarbha), by Kaikei

Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store (Kshitigarbha)

Kaikei · ca. 1202

Public domainThe Met
The Bosatsu Jizo and Ten Kings of Hell

The Bosatsu Jizo and Ten Kings of Hell

Artist not stated in the record · 1185-1333

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Jizō, by Intan

The Bodhisattva Jizō

Intan · 1291

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated bodhisattva (left attendant of a triad)

Seated bodhisattva (left attendant of a triad)

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

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · 541

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store (Kshitigarbha)

Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store (Kshitigarbha)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara)

Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara)

Artist not stated in the record · 700-750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store (Kshitigarbha)

Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store (Kshitigarbha)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
The Miraculous Interventions of Jizo Bosatsu 地蔵菩薩霊験記

The Miraculous Interventions of Jizo Bosatsu 地蔵菩薩霊験記

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute, by Kano Tan'yū

Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute

Kano Tan'yū · mid-17th 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
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Statue of Oya Jizo, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Statue of Oya Jizo

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Seated Bodhisattva

Seated Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja), by Kaikei

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)

Kaikei · early 13th 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
Kshitigarbha, by Unidentified artist

Kshitigarbha

Unidentified artist · first half of the 14th 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
Monk Sengqie

Monk Sengqie

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

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. 73 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. 2986107 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 23:15 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.