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 stele with Buddha” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:44 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 stele with Buddha

Miniature stele with Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · dated 574 (5th year of Wuping reign)

Public domainThe Met
Four-sided miniature stele

Four-sided miniature stele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha

Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century

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
Buddha flanked by Avalokiteshvara-Padmapani and Vajrapani

Buddha flanked by Avalokiteshvara-Padmapani and Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · dated 511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Dipankara (Randengfo)

Buddha Dipankara (Randengfo)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 495

Public domainThe Met
Seated Shijia Buddha (Shakyamuni)

Seated Shijia Buddha (Shakyamuni)

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE, or possibly modern

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Good Shepherd

Good Shepherd

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

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with bodhisattvas, monks, and lions

Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with bodhisattvas, monks, and lions

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE

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
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara

Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha with two bodhisattvas

Seated Buddha with two bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas

Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Akshobhya, the Buddha of the Eastern Pure Land

Akshobhya, the Buddha of the Eastern Pure Land

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing monks and bodhisattvas (obverse) and donors (reverse)

Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing monks and bodhisattvas (obverse) and donors (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature Shrine with the Enthroned Buddha

Miniature Shrine with the Enthroned Buddha

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

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
Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha with figures

Seated Buddha with figures

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 386-535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stele with the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) and Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizi)

Stele with the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) and Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizi)

Artist not stated in the record · mid- to late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas, lions, and figures

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas, lions, and figures

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 534-557

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. 49 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. 251023 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-29 10:44 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.