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. 12 shown for “Votive Stupa with Four Buddhas” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:16 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Small stupa

Small stupa

Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing bodhisattvas with monks, Pratyekabuddhas, lions, and apasaras

Standing bodhisattvas with monks, Pratyekabuddhas, lions, and apasaras

Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four-sided miniature stele

Four-sided miniature stele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantle Clock Supported by a Hotei ("Laughing Buddha"), by Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773

Mantle Clock Supported by a Hotei ("Laughing Buddha")

Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · 1740–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Design, Roman Votive, Panel with Dionysian Pattern of Grapes and Pinecones, and Eagle atop a Roman Standard., by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Roman Votive, Panel with Dionysian Pattern of Grapes and Pinecones, and Eagle atop a Roman Standard.

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Buddha's Life from a Prajna-paramita manuscript

Scenes from the Buddha's Life from a Prajna-paramita manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gathering of Buddhas and bodhisattvas

Gathering of Buddhas and bodhisattvas

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary with Stupa-Shaped Top

Reliquary with Stupa-Shaped Top

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 257942 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 23:16 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.