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 “Votive Plaque with Seated Bodhisattva” — 60 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:38 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.
Votive Plaque with Seated Bodhisattva

Votive Plaque with Seated Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Bodhisattva

Seated Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque with Seated Bodhisattva

Votive Plaque with Seated Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Bodhisattva

Seated Bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Seated under the Bodhi Tree

Buddha Seated under the Bodhi Tree

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Continents

Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque (Kakebotoke)

Votive Plaque (Kakebotoke)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Buddha with bodhisattvas (on one side) and Seated bodhisattva (on other side)

Standing Buddha with bodhisattvas (on one side) and Seated bodhisattva (on other side)

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 581-618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque with Seated Buddhas

Votive Plaque with Seated Buddhas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 618–906

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas (obverse); Seated Buddha and Prabhutaratna (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 548 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque with Seated Buddhas

Votive Plaque with Seated Buddhas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 618–906

Public domainThe Met
Study for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907

Study for the Violet Sargent Bronze Plaque in the Art Institute of Chicago

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1848 – 1907 · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque with Seated Figure

Votive Plaque with Seated Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1368–1643

Public domainThe Met
Seated bodhisattva

Seated bodhisattva

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Molded Plaque with Seated Buddha and Attendant Bodhisattvas

Molded Plaque with Seated Buddha and Attendant Bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas, lions, and figures

Seated Buddha with bodhisattvas, lions, and figures

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 534-557

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque with a Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara

Votive Plaque with a Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 16th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Wedgwood, English, established 1759

Button

Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 4 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. 255631 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-27 15:38 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.