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 “Plate with Buddhist monk Budai” — 52 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 22:05 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.
Plate with Buddhist monk Budai

Plate with Buddhist monk Budai

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva with two flanking monks and two lions

Standing Bodhisattva with two flanking monks and two lions

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 581-618

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
Head of the disciple Ananda

Head of the disciple Ananda

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist monk Budai

Buddhist monk Budai

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe

Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Ceremonial Alms Bowl

Buddhist Ceremonial Alms Bowl

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist monk's robe (kesa 袈裟)

Buddhist monk's robe (kesa 袈裟)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

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
Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ten Verses on Oxherding

Ten Verses on Oxherding

Artist not stated in the record · 1278

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)

Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku, by Unidentified artist

White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku

Unidentified artist · Kanzan and Jittoku: probably 14th century; Kannon: probably 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)

Buddhist monk's stole (ohi)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi e-den)

Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi e-den)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. In form of a Buddhist monk's stole, patched: Ohi

Brocade, silk. In form of a Buddhist monk's stole, patched: Ohi

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Jewel Rivers, by Sakai Ōho

Six Jewel Rivers

Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi e-den)

Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku (Shōtoku Taishi e-den)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole. Ohi

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole. Ohi

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantras of the Two Realms in Sanskrit Script, by Jakugon Taijō

Mantras of the Two Realms in Sanskrit Script

Jakugon Taijō · ca. 1767–71

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet

Buddhist tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 535-557

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Satsubari, the Second of the Sixteen Arhats

Satsubari, the Second of the Sixteen Arhats

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Brocade, silk. A Buddhist monk's robe, patched; kesa 袈裟

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

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. 12 matched · 12 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. 328984 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-08 22:05 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.