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 “Vase with Buddhist figures” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 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.
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Urn, a Pitcher, Vases

Design for an Urn, a Pitcher, Vases

Artist not stated in the record · 1620–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tara, the Buddhist Savior

Tara, the Buddhist Savior

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Gourd-Shaped Vase

Gourd-Shaped Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1670–1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with Buddhist figures

Vase with Buddhist figures

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase and Figure Sketches

Design for a Vase and Figure Sketches

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Vase, by Thomas Fletcher

Presentation Vase

Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation vase, by New England Glass Company

Presentation vase

New England Glass Company · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental detail with winged figure and vase, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Ornamental detail with winged figure and vase

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara

The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Panel Designs, by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Two Panel Designs

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734-49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Deity, Ushnishavijaya (Zun Sheng fo mu)

Buddhist Deity, Ushnishavijaya (Zun Sheng fo mu)

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase Decorated with Figures, Rinceaux, and Festoons

Vase Decorated with Figures, Rinceaux, and Festoons

Artist not stated in the record · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roller (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Roller (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Vase

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roller (one of a pair), by Meissen Manufactory

Roller (one of a pair)

Meissen Manufactory · model ca. 1740, mounts mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Maitreya (Mile)

Buddha Maitreya (Mile)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)

Public domainThe Met
Copy of the Portland Vase, by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British

Copy of the Portland Vase

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British · 1850–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Avalokiteshvara Padmapani

Avalokiteshvara Padmapani

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Figures, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles

Bodhisattva (Maitreya) with crossed ankles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 470–80

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 564 C. E.

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. 16159 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. 275935 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 07:39 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.