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. 13 shown for “The Buddhist Disciple Phra Sankachai” — 41 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:36 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.
The Buddhist Disciple Phra Sankachai

The Buddhist Disciple Phra Sankachai

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Head of the disciple Ananda

Head of the disciple Ananda

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen, by Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360)

Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen

Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360) · mid-14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Washing the Feet, from The Little Passion Series

Christ Washing the Feet, from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for Disciple Kneeling at the Tomb, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937

Study for Disciple Kneeling at the Tomb

Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn.

Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jan 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Artist not stated in the record · 599

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luohan laundering 羅漢洗濯圖, by Lin Tinggui 林庭桂 (active late 12th century)

Luohan laundering 羅漢洗濯圖

Lin Tinggui 林庭桂 (active late 12th century) · 1178

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mocking of Christ [left]; Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Mocking of Christ [left]; Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1584-1587

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Sphaerostephanos penniger (Hook.) Holttum

Sphaerostephanos penniger (Hook.) Holttum

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sphenomeris chinensis (L.) Maxon

Sphenomeris chinensis (L.) Maxon

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples

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

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1184168 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 19:36 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.