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 “Panel from a Buddhist Ritual Crown Depicting Vairocana” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 00:12 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.
Panel from a Buddhist Ritual Crown Depicting Vairocana

Panel from a Buddhist Ritual Crown Depicting Vairocana

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th 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
Vajracharya Priest’s Crown

Vajracharya Priest’s Crown

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

Public domainThe Met
Interior Detail of the Teatro Vaccai, Telentino, by Giuseppe Lucatelli, Italian, 1751 – 1828

Interior Detail of the Teatro Vaccai, Telentino

Giuseppe Lucatelli, Italian, 1751 – 1828 · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief panel

Relief panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid- to late 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chōmeiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala

Chōmeiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Petits Trumeaux de la Galerie d’Apollon, by Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726

Petits Trumeaux de la Galerie d’Apollon

Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of a Buddhist Ritual Crown with Ratnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South

Panel of a Buddhist Ritual Crown with Ratnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South

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

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lambris, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715

Lambris, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries, by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries, by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

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

Shakyamuni triad

Unidentified artist · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries, by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries., by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries.

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries, by François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676

Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries

François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Showing a King in the Red Crown

Plaque Showing a King in the Red Crown

Artist not stated in the record · mid-8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Carriage

Elevation of a Carriage

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 37 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. 1982066 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 00:12 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.