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 “Textile panel with phoenixes and lotuses holding the Eight Buddhist Treasures” — 16 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:38 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.

Textile panel with phoenixes and lotuses holding the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Textile panel with phoenixes and lotuses holding the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sutra Cover with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Sutra Cover with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Bowl with the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Seasons and Elements (Air) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Air) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Panel with a Phoenix and Birds in a Rock Garden

Panel with a Phoenix and Birds in a Rock Garden

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Box with Landscape Scenes and Auspicious Emblems

Box with Landscape Scenes and Auspicious Emblems

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Nine-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Kujō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Nine-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Kujō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–mid 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Lotus Arabesque

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1796

Public domainThe Met
Quiver Decorated with the Eight Auspicious Symbols

Quiver Decorated with the Eight Auspicious Symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel with gourds on vines

Panel with gourds on vines

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidery of a Thousand-Armed Kannon, by Unidentified artist

Embroidery of a Thousand-Armed Kannon

Unidentified artist · probably late 15th–early 16th 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. 16 matched · 16 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 2026-08-28 05:38 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.