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 “Miniature Shrine with the Enthroned Buddha” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:37 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.
Miniature Shrine with the Enthroned Buddha

Miniature Shrine with the Enthroned Buddha

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

Public domainThe Met
Four-sided miniature stele

Four-sided miniature stele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shrine, by Matthias Walbaum

Shrine

Matthias Walbaum · 1598–1600

Public domainThe Met
Buddha enthroned on a mat of kusa grass

Buddha enthroned on a mat of kusa grass

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha

Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Relief statuette of seated Buddha with nine miniature Buddhas around in low relief on wide mandorla

Relief statuette of seated Buddha with nine miniature Buddhas around in low relief on wide mandorla

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Enthroned Buddha Granting Boons

Artist not stated in the record · dated by inscription to ca. 600

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 548 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches, The Virgin Enthroned and the Virgin and Child Enthroned, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Sketches, The Virgin Enthroned and the Virgin and Child Enthroned

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Preaching Buddha

Enthroned Preaching Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th century

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child Enthroned, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Virgin and Child Enthroned

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crowned Buddha

Crowned Buddha

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

Public domainThe Met
The Bija A, representing Vairocana (Dainichi)

The Bija A, representing Vairocana (Dainichi)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Buddha

Enthroned Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 1923, by inscription

Public domainThe Met
Bangali Ragini

Bangali Ragini

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketch, Enthroned Figure with Figures Fighting over Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Sketch, Enthroned Figure with Figures Fighting over Child

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enthroned Buddha with Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Enthroned Buddha with Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Saint Sebastian, Detail of Polyptich with the Virgin Enthroned, Study after Dosso Dossi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Saint Sebastian, Detail of Polyptich with the Virgin Enthroned, Study after Dosso Dossi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

Public domainThe Met
Madonna enthroned with saints, by Denys Calvaert, Flemish, 1540 - 1619

Madonna enthroned with saints

Denys Calvaert, Flemish, 1540 - 1619 · 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Good Shepherd

Good Shepherd

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints; Study after Panetti or Costa, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints; Study after Panetti or Costa

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

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. 248 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. 1294292 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 00:37 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.