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 “Seated arhat” — 50 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:45 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.
Seated arhat

Seated arhat

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Lohan, seated upon a lion

Lohan, seated upon a lion

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rocky crag with seated arhat

Rocky crag with seated arhat

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Luohan, by Traditionally attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322)

Seated Luohan

Traditionally attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Arhat, by Shōun Genkei

Seated Arhat

Shōun Genkei · 1688–95

Public domainThe Met
Lohan seated; an attendant kneeling before him, by Formerly attributed to Lu Tanwei (active 460s-early 500s)

Lohan seated; an attendant kneeling before him

Formerly attributed to Lu Tanwei (active 460s-early 500s) · 1279-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Arhat (Buddhist Saint)

Seated Arhat (Buddhist Saint)

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

Public domainThe Met
Seated luohan, by Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760)

Seated luohan

Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760) · 1345?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Arhat, a Buddhist Saint

An Arhat, a Buddhist Saint

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Luohan seated under a tree, by Formerly attributed to Wang Guan (active late 10th century)

Luohan seated under a tree

Formerly attributed to Wang Guan (active late 10th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated luohan (arhat) in a grotto

Seated luohan (arhat) in a grotto

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen, by Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360)

Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen

Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360) · mid-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated luohan (arhat) in a grotto

Seated luohan (arhat) in a grotto

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
A luohan and a demon

A luohan and a demon

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"

Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"

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

Public domainThe Met
Luohan with a white monkey

Luohan with a white monkey

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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
Head of a Luohan

Head of a Luohan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 700-750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luohan and lion

Luohan and lion

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luohan on a water buffalo skin

Luohan on a water buffalo skin

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A luohan and an attendant

A luohan and an attendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 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. 11693 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-28 10:45 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.