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 “Standing Bodhisattva” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:39 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.
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Glass Figure of a Standing Bodhisattva, by Unidentified

Glass Figure of a Standing Bodhisattva

Unidentified · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva

Standing Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing bodhisattva

Standing bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing bodhisattva

Standing bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · mid- to late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, showing torso of seated Buddha, a standing Bodhisattva and two cartouches on the front: and left arm of another seated Buddha on the side

Fragment, showing torso of seated Buddha, a standing Bodhisattva and two cartouches on the front: and left arm of another seated Buddha on the side

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya

Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Two standing bodhisattvas

Two standing bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 563 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara)

Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara)

Artist not stated in the record · 700-750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya , the Buddha of the Future

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya , the Buddha of the Future

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th 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
Standing Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Wisdom

Standing Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Sanskrit Avalokiteshvara)

Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Sanskrit Avalokiteshvara)

Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Jizō, by Intan

The Bodhisattva Jizō

Intan · 1291

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva

Standing Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1282

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattvas

Standing Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 587

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

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

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva with attendants

Standing Bodhisattva with attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 596

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva

Standing Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 581-600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Vajrapani

The Bodhisattva Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–early 8th 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
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. 115 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. 17998 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-03 19:39 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.