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. 21 shown for “Monju Bosatsu with Eight Sacred Sanskrit Syllables” — 49 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:28 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.
Monju Bosatsu with Eight Sacred Sanskrit Syllables

Monju Bosatsu with Eight Sacred Sanskrit Syllables

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

Public domainThe Met
The Bodhisattva Monju

The Bodhisattva Monju

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect

Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Monju bosatsu (Manjushri)

Monju bosatsu (Manjushri)

Artist not stated in the record · 1333-1573

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
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
The Bodhisattva Monju (Manjushri) with Eight Topknots

The Bodhisattva Monju (Manjushri) with Eight Topknots

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)

Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mandala of the Bodhisattva Monju (Manjushri) of the Eight Syllables

Mandala of the Bodhisattva Monju (Manjushri) of the Eight Syllables

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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
Portable Shrine of Miroku Bosatsu with Sacred Sanskrit Syllable

Portable Shrine of Miroku Bosatsu with Sacred Sanskrit Syllable

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist deity: Gokei Monju (Manjushri)

Buddhist deity: Gokei Monju (Manjushri)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

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
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mandala of the Bodhisattva Hannya (Prajnaparamita)

Mandala of the Bodhisattva Hannya (Prajnaparamita)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Bangali Ragini

Bangali Ragini

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daishōjin Bosatsu, from “Album of Buddhist Deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas”, by Takuma Tametō

Daishōjin Bosatsu, from “Album of Buddhist Deities from the Diamond World and Womb World Mandalas”

Takuma Tametō · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Manjushri (Monju)

Portrait of Manjushri (Monju)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black cassock with band collar, by Abbey Brand, American, founded 1947

Black cassock with band collar

Abbey Brand, American, founded 1947 · mid to late-20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle, by William Boswell, active London, late 17th century.

Fork with Eight-Paneled Agate Handle

William Boswell, active London, late 17th century. · late 17th 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 251701 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 10:28 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.