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 Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:18 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 Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

Standing Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)

Historical Buddha Shakyamuni with the bodhisattvas Fugen (Samantabhadra) and Monju (Manjushri)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Manjushri

Bodhisattva Manjushri

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
The Bodhisattva Monju

The Bodhisattva Monju

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha Amitabha (Amita) and the Eight Great Bodhisattvas

Buddha Amitabha (Amita) and the Eight Great Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 14th century

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
Thousand-armed thousand-eyed bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) 明 佚名 《千手千眼觀世音菩薩像》 軸, by Formerly attributed to Fanlong 梵隆 (active mid-12th century)

Thousand-armed thousand-eyed bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) 明 佚名 《千手千眼觀世音菩薩像》 軸

Formerly attributed to Fanlong 梵隆 (active mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

Head of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist deity: Gokei Monju (Manjushri)

Buddhist deity: Gokei Monju (Manjushri)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

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

The Bodhisattva Jizō

Intan · 1291

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Manjushri (Monju)

Portrait of Manjushri (Monju)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Manjushri as a Ferocious Destroyer of Ignorance

The Bodhisattva Manjushri as a Ferocious Destroyer of Ignorance

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)

Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manjuvajra Mandala

Manjuvajra Mandala

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing figure of Bodhisattva: both hands missing, and minor injuries

Standing figure of Bodhisattva: both hands missing, and minor injuries

Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manjushri, Bodhisattva of Wisdom, with five knots of hair (Wuji wenshu)

Manjushri, Bodhisattva of Wisdom, with five knots of hair (Wuji wenshu)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-11th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing bodhisattva

Standing bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Manjushri (Wenshu)

Bodhisattva Manjushri (Wenshu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Bodhisattva

Standing Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Standing Bodhisattvas

Standing Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 587

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya

Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya

Artist not stated in the record · early 8th 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
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. 81 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2984390 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-04 01:18 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.