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 “Votive Tablet with Buddhist Triad” — 48 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:27 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 Tablet with Buddhist Triad

Votive Tablet with Buddhist Triad

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Plinth with four repeat images of Buddhist triads

Plinth with four repeat images of Buddhist triads

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive tablet with Buddhist triad

Votive tablet with Buddhist triad

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet

Buddhist tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 535-557

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive tablet with Buddha

Votive tablet with Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · dated 526 (2nd year of Xiaochang reign)

Public domainThe Met
Small soapstone tablet, with pierced relief of Manjusri on lion

Small soapstone tablet, with pierced relief of Manjusri on lion

Artist not stated in the record · dated 543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Tablet with Twenty-Five Buddhas

Votive Tablet with Twenty-Five Buddhas

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet: the Buddha Gautama Sakyamuni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities

Buddhist tablet: the Buddha Gautama Sakyamuni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities

Artist not stated in the record · 386-535

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Buddhist images

Tile with Buddhist images

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet

Buddhist tablet

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 574 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Buddhist images

Tile with Buddhist images

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet in the form of a miniature shrine

Buddhist tablet in the form of a miniature shrine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive Plaque (Tsa Tsa) Depicting a Stupa

Votive Plaque (Tsa Tsa) Depicting a Stupa

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Stele with Bodhisattva Maitreya (Mile); reverse with Buddha Vairochana (Pilushena)

Stele with Bodhisattva Maitreya (Mile); reverse with Buddha Vairochana (Pilushena)

Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature stele with Buddha

Miniature stele with Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · dated 574 (5th year of Wuping reign)

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet: standing figure in high relief; right hand missing

Buddhist tablet: standing figure in high relief; right hand missing

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 551 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist tablet

Buddhist tablet

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 536 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist tablet: seated central figure flanked by monk and Bodhisattva on either hand; rectangular base, and figure of Buddha in sunken relief on reverse

Buddhist tablet: seated central figure flanked by monk and Bodhisattva on either hand; rectangular base, and figure of Buddha in sunken relief on reverse

Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist triad of Shakyamuni, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra, by Kose Arishige 臣勢有重(有茂) (born 1300)

Buddhist triad of Shakyamuni, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra

Kose Arishige 臣勢有重(有茂) (born 1300) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 251004 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 2026-08-29 08:27 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.