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 “"A Supplicant at a Hindu Temple," Folio from the Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza)” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 17:02 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

"Khwaja Umar Saved from Pursuers," Folio from the Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza), by Kesu Das

"Khwaja Umar Saved from Pursuers," Folio from the Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza)

Kesu Das · ca. 1565–70

Public domainThe Met
"A Supplicant at a Hindu Temple," Folio from the Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza)

"A Supplicant at a Hindu Temple," Folio from the Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
"Mihrdukht Aims her Arrow at the Ring," Folio from the Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza)

"Mihrdukht Aims her Arrow at the Ring," Folio from the Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
"Misbah the Grocer Brings the Spy Parran to his House", Folio from a Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza), by Dasavanta

"Misbah the Grocer Brings the Spy Parran to his House", Folio from a Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza)

Dasavanta · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590–95

Public domainThe Met
"Amr has the Infidels Thrown into the Sea", Folio from a Khavarannama (The Book of the East) of ibn Husam al-Din, by Maulana Muhammad Ibn Husam ad Din

"Amr has the Infidels Thrown into the Sea", Folio from a Khavarannama (The Book of the East) of ibn Husam al-Din

Maulana Muhammad Ibn Husam ad Din · ca. 1476–86

Public domainThe Met
Futuh al-Haramain (Description of the Holy Cities), by Muhi al-Din Lari

Futuh al-Haramain (Description of the Holy Cities)

Muhi al-Din Lari · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
"Rustam Lassos Rakhsh", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Rustam Lassos Rakhsh", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
"Laur and Chanda in the Forest", Folio from a Chandayana (or Laur Chanda), by Maulana Da'ud

"Laur and Chanda in the Forest", Folio from a Chandayana (or Laur Chanda)

Maulana Da'ud · ca. 1525–50

Public domainThe Met
"Fairies Descend to the Chamber of Prince Manohar", Folio from a Gulshan-i 'Ishq (Rose Garden of Love)

"Fairies Descend to the Chamber of Prince Manohar", Folio from a Gulshan-i 'Ishq (Rose Garden of Love)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
"Rustam's Fourth Course, He Cleaves a Witch", Folio 120v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Rustam's Fourth Course, He Cleaves a Witch", Folio 120v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

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. 36 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 17:02 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.