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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 “"Preparing a Noonday Meal on an Outing", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di” — 62 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 14:52 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.
"Preparing a Noonday Meal on an Outing", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"Preparing a Noonday Meal on an Outing", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Artist at Work, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Artist at Work

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Preparing a Noonday Meal on an Outing", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"Preparing a Noonday Meal on an Outing", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of foliage, by William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

Study of foliage

William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · June 15, 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"A Ruler in his Palace", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di, by Sa'di

"A Ruler in his Palace", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Sa'di · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
A page from a Book of Dreams/Omens

A page from a Book of Dreams/Omens

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"A Garden Scene", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"A Garden Scene", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Folder for The Committee For The Negro In The Arts, Art Workshop Folio, by Unidentified

Folder for The Committee For The Negro In The Arts, Art Workshop Folio

Unidentified · 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"A Scene of Dancing and Music", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"A Scene of Dancing and Music", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"A Lover Falls Before the Feet of his Beloved", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"A Lover Falls Before the Feet of his Beloved", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"A Scene of Lovers and their Friends in a Garden", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"A Scene of Lovers and their Friends in a Garden", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tree Covered Hillside Overlooking Port and Harbor Town, by William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

Tree Covered Hillside Overlooking Port and Harbor Town

William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · after 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Servants of One of the Monarchs of Ghur Make Obeisance Before Him", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"The Servants of One of the Monarchs of Ghur Make Obeisance Before Him", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Hooping Crane, Grus Americana (Young)

Hooping Crane, Grus Americana (Young)

Artist not stated in the record · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"A Man Complained to Da'ud of a Sufi Mystic Drunk", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"A Man Complained to Da'ud of a Sufi Mystic Drunk", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Head of the Village Thanks the King for Accepting his Humble Hospitality", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"The Head of the Village Thanks the King for Accepting his Humble Hospitality", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Daniel, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Daniel

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"A Youth, who has Fallen in Love with a Princess, Dies at her Feet when she Speaks", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

"A Youth, who has Fallen in Love with a Princess, Dies at her Feet when she Speaks", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Daniel, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Daniel

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Interior Reception", Folio 36r from a Bustan of Sa`di, by Shaikh Zada

"Interior Reception", Folio 36r from a Bustan of Sa`di

Shaikh Zada · ca. 1525–35

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Partial Sketches of a Dog, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Partial Sketches of a Dog

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

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. 22 matched · 22 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. 2879752 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 14:52 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.