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. 20 shown for “Theatrical vest for a female Buddhist priest” — 59 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:30 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 vest for a female Buddhist priest

Theatrical vest for a female 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
Theatrical robe for a Buddhist priest

Theatrical robe for a 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
Woman's Theatrical Jacket

Woman's Theatrical Jacket

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling Decoration, Teatro Valle, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript, by Mahavihara Master

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Expounding the Dharma to a Devotee: Folio from a Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Manuscript

Mahavihara Master · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Three Friezes; A Base; An Ornament, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Three Friezes; A Base; An Ornament

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

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
Buddhist allegory of a priest burning cherry branches, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Buddhist allegory of a priest burning cherry branches

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1760-1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Skirt from Theatrical Ensemble for a Female Role

Skirt from Theatrical Ensemble for a Female Role

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Egyptian Figure, The High Priest, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Egyptian Figure, The High Priest

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Clematis Flowers, Leaves, and Vines

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Clematis Flowers, Leaves, and Vines

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Water jar with design of reeds and water

Water jar with design of reeds and water

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Pattern of Flowing Water, Chrysanthemums, Fishing Nets, and Waterwheels

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Pattern of Flowing Water, Chrysanthemums, Fishing Nets, and Waterwheels

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Theatrical skirt with peacock feather design

Theatrical skirt with peacock feather design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Theatrical jacket with peacock feather design

Theatrical jacket with peacock feather design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

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. 19 matched · 19 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. 2495781 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:30 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.