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. 17 shown for “Stupa” — 52 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:37 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.
Stupa

Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Parus major stupae

Parus major stupae

Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha’s descent from Trayastrimsa Heaven

Drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha’s descent from Trayastrimsa Heaven

Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Parus major stupae

Parus major stupae

Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stupa

Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Parus major stupae

Parus major stupae

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stupa

Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Stupa

Stupa

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

Public domainThe Met
Stupa

Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Stupa

Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Stupa

Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Ushnishavijaya Enthroned in the Womb of a Stupa

Ushnishavijaya Enthroned in the Womb of a Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1510–19

Public domainThe Met
Parus major stupae

Parus major stupae

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Lotuses, from the Bharhut Stupa

Two Lotuses, from the Bharhut Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Parus major stupae

Parus major stupae

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th 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. 104 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. 28 matched · 28 examined · 6 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 2026-08-27 12:37 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.