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 Prajnaparamita, the Goddess of Transcendent Wisdom” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:20 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 Prajnaparamita, the Goddess of Transcendent Wisdom

Standing Prajnaparamita, the Goddess of Transcendent Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Vasudhara ("Bearer of Gems")

Vasudhara ("Bearer of Gems")

Artist not stated in the record · dated winter of 1082

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prajnaparamita, Painting from a Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript, by Unidentified artist

Prajnaparamita, Painting from a Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript

Unidentified artist · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prajnaparamita, the Buddhist Goddess of Transcendent Wisdom

Prajnaparamita, the Buddhist Goddess of Transcendent Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter consoles an imploring goddess, probably Venus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Jupiter consoles an imploring goddess, probably Venus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1796–98

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tara

Tara

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")

Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Prajnaparamita (?), the Goddess of Transcendent Wisdom

Seated Prajnaparamita (?), the Goddess of Transcendent Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. second half of the 12th–first half of the 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Antique Goddesses, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Four Antique Goddesses

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of the Dead for the Chantress of Amun, Nauny

Book of the Dead for the Chantress of Amun, Nauny

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated Hindu Goddess

Seated Hindu Goddess

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Manjushri as a Youth

The Bodhisattva Manjushri as a Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Six Antique Gods and Goddesses, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Six Antique Gods and Goddesses

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manjuvajra Mandala

Manjuvajra Mandala

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Diana and Endymion, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Diana and Endymion

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Finial with the Earth Goddess, Nan Brah Dharani, and Standing Vishnu

Finial with the Earth Goddess, Nan Brah Dharani, and Standing Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. first half of the 13th century

Public domainThe Met
The Spirit of Wisdom, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Spirit of Wisdom

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manjushri, Painting from a Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript, by Unidentified artist

Manjushri, Painting from a Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript

Unidentified artist · ca. 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1810

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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2984391 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 23:20 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.