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. 23 shown for “Niche with the Seated Bodhisattva Shakyamuni Flanked by Devotees and an Elephant” — 51 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:16 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.
Niche with the Seated Bodhisattva Shakyamuni Flanked by Devotees and an Elephant

Niche with the Seated Bodhisattva Shakyamuni Flanked by Devotees and an Elephant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th 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
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
Project: The elevation of an altar

Project: The elevation of an altar

Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shakyamuni triad, by Unidentified artist

Shakyamuni triad

Unidentified artist · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tapestry: Allegory of Africa, by Gérard Audran, French, 1640–1703

Design for a Tapestry: Allegory of Africa

Gérard Audran, French, 1640–1703 · 1660-1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment

Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1260–70

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716-19

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
Chimney Piece Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Chimney Piece Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Shakyamuni with attendant bodhisattvas

Buddha Shakyamuni with attendant bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Sakyamuni on an elephant, by Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century)

Sakyamuni on an elephant

Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century

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
Design for a Niche with a Buffet, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Niche with a Buffet

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and the Ten Great Disciples

Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and the Ten Great Disciples

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing bodhisattvas

Seated Buddha (Shakyamuni) with standing bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 549 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amitabha triad, by Unidentified artist

Amitabha triad

Unidentified artist · ca. 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden), by Unknown, Italian

Project for an Elevation of Garden Architecture (Entrance to a Villa or Garden)

Unknown, Italian · 1725–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality, by Wang Zhenpeng

Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality

Wang Zhenpeng · dated 1308

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
Tile with Buddha Triad

Tile with Buddha Triad

Artist not stated in the record · second half 7th 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
Dessein d'un Poële de terre vernissée en blanc, avec tous ses ornement, et principales moulures dorés, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Dessein d'un Poële de terre vernissée en blanc, avec tous ses ornement, et principales moulures dorés

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1757

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2139889 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 01:16 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.