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. 24 shown for “Theatrical robe for a Buddhist priest” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:27 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.
Theatrical robe for a Buddhist priest

Theatrical robe for a Buddhist priest

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acala, The Buddhist Protector

Acala, The Buddhist Protector

Artist not stated in the record · equivalent to February / March 1322

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) Made from a Chinese Robe

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) Made from a Chinese Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman’s ceremonial robe

Woman’s ceremonial robe

Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Priest in St. Peter's, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Priest in St. Peter's

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · November 1, 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theatrical vest for a female Buddhist priest

Theatrical vest for a female Buddhist priest

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Priests Worshipping on the Ocean Shore, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Priests Worshipping on the Ocean Shore

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Floral-Lozenge Pattern

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Floral-Lozenge Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror with incised Buddhist triad

Mirror with incised Buddhist triad

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Rabbit in the Moon

Rabbit in the Moon

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Jizō, by Intan

The Bodhisattva Jizō

Intan · 1291

Public domainThe Met
Panel from priest's robe

Panel from priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theatrical Costume for the Role of a Buddhist Cleric

Theatrical Costume for the Role of a Buddhist Cleric

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Brocade, silk. A priest's robe, patched: Kesa

Brocade, silk. A priest's robe, patched: Kesa

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe for Buddhist Priest

Robe for Buddhist Priest

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Church at Puerto Naré, Rio Magdalena, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Church at Puerto Naré, Rio Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 18, 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theatrical robe for a female Daoist priest

Theatrical robe for a female Daoist priest

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1810

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. 279 matched · 24 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. 2072376 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 18:27 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.