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. 12 shown for “Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:49 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

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

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Amitayus, the Buddha of Eternal Life

Amitayus, the Buddha of Eternal Life

Artist not stated in the record · 11th or early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha Attended by Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya

Buddha Attended by Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
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
The Transcendent Buddha Ratnasambhava Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

The Transcendent Buddha Ratnasambhava Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas

Meditating Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles

Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 470–80

Public domainThe Met
Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 311 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:49 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.