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 “Stele with the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) and Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizi)” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:56 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.

Stele with the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) and Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizi)

Stele with the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) and Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizi)

Artist not stated in the record · mid- to late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1282

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–560

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

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

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles

Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 470–80

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in Water Moon Form (Shuiyue Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in Water Moon Form (Shuiyue Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddha flanked by Avalokiteshvara-Padmapani and Vajrapani

Buddha flanked by Avalokiteshvara-Padmapani and Vajrapani

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara of the Lion's Roar, or Simhanada Avalokiteshvara (Shi Hou Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara of the Lion's Roar, or Simhanada Avalokiteshvara (Shi Hou Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in Water Moon Form (Shuiyue Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in Water Moon Form (Shuiyue Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1385

Public domainThe Met
Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, by Unidentified artist

Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva

Unidentified artist · late 17th–early 18th 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. 31 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:56 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.