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 “Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)” — 21 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:16 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.

Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodhisattva, probably Maitryeya (Buddha of the Future)

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Standing Bodisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

Standing Bodisattva Maitreya (Buddha of the Future)

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

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya

Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya

Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
The Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

The Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha Dipankara (Randengfo)

Buddha Dipankara (Randengfo)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 495

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
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 Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century(?)

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha Reaching Enlightenment, Flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya

Seated Buddha Reaching Enlightenment, Flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya

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

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. 21 matched · 21 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 2026-08-27 01:16 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.