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. 16 shown for “The Wisdom King Aizen (Aizen Myōō)” — 44 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:18 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 Wisdom King Aizen (Aizen Myōō)

The Wisdom King Aizen (Aizen Myōō)

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
The Queen of Sheba Admiring the Wisdom of Solomon, by Williams, Mary

The Queen of Sheba Admiring the Wisdom of Solomon

Williams, Mary · 1744

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Iconographical Drawing of the Mandala of the Wisdom King Aizen

Iconographical Drawing of the Mandala of the Wisdom King Aizen

Artist not stated in the record · 1107 (Kashō 2)

Public domainThe Met
Wisdom – Sapience

Wisdom – Sapience

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scroll from the Compendium of Iconographic Drawings (Zuzōshō)

Scroll from the Compendium of Iconographic Drawings (Zuzōshō)

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th 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
Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect

Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Allegory of Divine Wisdom, Reception Room, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy, by Andrea Sacchi, Italian, 1599 – 1661

Design for Allegory of Divine Wisdom, Reception Room, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy

Andrea Sacchi, Italian, 1599 – 1661 · 1629–1631

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised.", by Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735

Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."

Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735 · 1726

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interlaced circles

Interlaced circles

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1830

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1230782 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-04 01:18 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.