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 tablet with Buddha” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:13 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 Buddha

Votive tablet with Buddha

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist tablet

Buddhist tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 535-557

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze votive tablet

Bronze votive tablet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

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 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
Buddha Seated under the Bodhi Tree

Buddha Seated under the Bodhi Tree

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Lead votive plaque

Lead votive plaque

Artist not stated in the record · probably 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
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
Votive Tablet with Buddhist Triad

Votive Tablet with Buddhist Triad

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
The Buddha Gautama Sakyamni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities

The Buddha Gautama Sakyamni (Shih-chia) and attendant divinities

Artist not stated in the record · Dated 534 CE

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
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
Hilya (Votive Tablet)

Hilya (Votive Tablet)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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
Votive Tablet

Votive Tablet

Artist not stated in the record

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
Votive Tablet

Votive Tablet

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
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
Votive Tablet

Votive Tablet

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for a tablet, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Sketches for a tablet

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive tablet

Votive tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist stele

Buddhist stele

Artist not stated in the record · dated 511

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. 57 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. 250996 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 06:13 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.