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. 18 shown for “Wheel of the Buddhist Law (Rinpō)” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:20 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.
Wheel of the Buddhist Law (Rinpō)

Wheel of the Buddhist Law (Rinpō)

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Pindola Bharadvaja, the first venerable Luohan 賓度羅跋羅墮闍尊者像, by Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760)

Pindola Bharadvaja, the first venerable Luohan 賓度羅跋羅墮闍尊者像

Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760) · 1345

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of a Bodhisattva, by Sahri-Bahlol Workshop

Torso of a Bodhisattva

Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Public domainThe Met
A luohan and a demon

A luohan and a demon

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel

Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1424

Public domainThe Met
Tobacco tin used to store cartridge from raid on Harper's Ferry, by J. Wright Co., American

Tobacco tin used to store cartridge from raid on Harper's Ferry

J. Wright Co., American · late 19th century - early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist Attendant

Buddhist Attendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Peabody Insurance Company Fire Mark, by unknown

Peabody Insurance Company Fire Mark

unknown · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary(?) with Scenes from the Life of Buddha

Reliquary(?) with Scenes from the Life of Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th century

Public domainThe Met
William Collins Whitney, by Max Cramer, active c. 1902

William Collins Whitney

Max Cramer, active c. 1902 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, by James Cox

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox · 1766

Public domainThe Met
William Collins Whitney, by Max Cramer, active c. 1902

William Collins Whitney

Max Cramer, active c. 1902 · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanitas Still Life, by Jacques de Gheyn II

Vanitas Still Life

Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Mirror clock, by Master CR

Mirror clock

Master CR · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
The Sixteen Luohans, by Wu Bin

The Sixteen Luohans

Wu Bin · dated 1591

Public domainThe Met
Vaishravana, the Guardian of Buddhism and Protector of Riches

Vaishravana, the Guardian of Buddhism and Protector of Riches

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja), by Kaikei

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)

Kaikei · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Bedstead, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Bedstead

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1830–60

Public domainThe Met
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. 129 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2984364 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 06:20 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.