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 “Molded Plaque Depicting a Mandala of the Eight Bodhisattvas” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:49 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.
Molded Plaque Depicting a Mandala of the Eight Bodhisattvas

Molded Plaque Depicting a Mandala of the Eight Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha Amitabha (Amita) and the Eight Great Bodhisattvas

Buddha Amitabha (Amita) and the Eight Great Bodhisattvas

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mandala of Jnanadakini

Mandala of Jnanadakini

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942

Tile

Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942 · 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Buffet, by Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701

Design for a Buffet

Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Rookwood, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Rookwood

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1903–13

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Bracket

Bracket

Artist not stated in the record · 1755–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kasuga Deer Mandala (Kasuga shika mandara zu)

Kasuga Deer Mandala (Kasuga shika mandara zu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Cornet case owned by Maxine Sullivan

Cornet case owned by Maxine Sullivan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Plaque

Plaque

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mandala of Chandra, God of the Moon

Mandala of Chandra, God of the Moon

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

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Plaque for the Society of Farmers, by Christofle, French, founded 1830

Commemorative Plaque for the Society of Farmers

Christofle, French, founded 1830 · 1884

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
Design for a painted ceiling, by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Design for a painted ceiling

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
From a frieze called "The Pines", by Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951

From a frieze called "The Pines"

Addison B. Le Boutellier, 1872 – 1951 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Arhats

Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Arhats

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Plaque Depicting the Last Supper

Decorative Plaque Depicting the Last Supper

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th 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. 128 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. 3945971 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-04 21:49 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.