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 “Three seated luohans” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:22 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.
Three seated luohans

Three seated luohans

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

Public domainThe Met
A luohan and a demon

A luohan and a demon

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arhat (Luohan)

Arhat (Luohan)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Seated Luohan, by Traditionally attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322)

Seated Luohan

Traditionally attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner with the Eighteen Luohans

Incense Burner with the Eighteen Luohans

Artist not stated in the record · 1645

Public domainThe Met
Seated luohan, by Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760)

Seated luohan

Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760) · 1345?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arhat (Luohan)

Arhat (Luohan)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000

Public domainThe Met
Luohan seated under a tree, by Formerly attributed to Wang Guan (active late 10th century)

Luohan seated under a tree

Formerly attributed to Wang Guan (active late 10th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

Public domainThe Met
Pindola Bharadvaja, the first venerable Luohan 賓度羅跋羅墮闍尊者像, by Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760)

Pindola Bharadvaja, the first venerable Luohan 賓度羅跋羅墮闍尊者像

Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760) · 1345

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Sofa à Trois Places (Sofa with Three Seats), by Matthew Liard, English, ca. 1736–1782

Sofa à Trois Places (Sofa with Three Seats)

Matthew Liard, English, ca. 1736–1782 · 1736–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 9th century

Public domainThe Met
The Artist's Mother Seated at a Table, Looking Right: Three Quarter Length

The Artist's Mother Seated at a Table, Looking Right: Three Quarter Length

Artist not stated in the record · 1631

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Censer with seated king, by Maya artist(s)

Censer with seated king

Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
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
Seated luohan with a servant

Seated luohan with a servant

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

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of three unidentified men

Photographic postcard of three unidentified men

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated luohan holding a fan

Seated luohan holding a fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of three unidentified men

Photographic postcard of three unidentified men

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female

Seated female

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Peacock Side Chair, by Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959

Peacock Side Chair

Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1921–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Woman, by Antoine Watteau

Seated Woman

Antoine Watteau · 1716–17

Public domainThe Met
Chair with corn husk seat woven by Johnnie Ree Jackson, by Johnnie Ree Jackson, American, born 1904

Chair with corn husk seat woven by Johnnie Ree Jackson

Johnnie Ree Jackson, American, born 1904 · 1980s

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. 1122 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 37375 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 14:22 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.