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. 14 shown for “Mahavihara Master” — 54 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:17 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.
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript, by Mahavihara Master

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Mattel View-Master owned by Michael Holman

Mattel View-Master owned by Michael Holman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Dispensing Boons: Folio from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript, by Mahavihara Master

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Dispensing Boons: Folio from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Horse and Rider master die, by Elie Timothee Loizeaux, 1873 - 1956

Horse and Rider master die

Elie Timothee Loizeaux, 1873 - 1956 · c. 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White Tara, Folio from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript, by Mahavihara Master

White Tara, Folio from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Green Tara, Folio from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript, by Mahavihara Master

Green Tara, Folio from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Green Tara, Folio from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript, by Mahavihara Master

Green Tara, Folio from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Maitreya, Folio from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript, by Mahavihara Master

Bodhisattva Maitreya, Folio from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Maitreya, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript, by Mahavihara Master

Bodhisattva Maitreya, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Green Tara Dispensing Boons to Ecstatic Devotees: Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom), by Mahavihara Master

Green Tara Dispensing Boons to Ecstatic Devotees: Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra, by Mahavihara Master

Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra, by Mahavihara Master

Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra, by Mahavihara Master

Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra, by Mahavihara Master

Leaves from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 14 matched · 14 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. 4437 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:17 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.