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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
"Preparing a Noonday Meal on an Outing", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Sketchbook Page: Artist at Work
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

"Preparing a Noonday Meal on an Outing", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

"A Ruler in his Palace", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di
Sa'di · 19th century

A page from a Book of Dreams/Omens
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

"A Garden Scene", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Folder for The Committee For The Negro In The Arts, Art Workshop Folio
Unidentified · 1952

"A Scene of Dancing and Music", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

"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

Sketchbook Page
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"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

Tree Covered Hillside Overlooking Port and Harbor Town
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · after 1878

"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

Hooping Crane, Grus Americana (Young)
Artist not stated in the record · 1835

"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

Sketchbook Page
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"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

Sketchbook Page: Daniel
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"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

Sketchbook Page: Daniel
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

"Interior Reception", Folio 36r from a Bustan of Sa`di
Shaikh Zada · ca. 1525–35

Sketchbook Page: Partial Sketches of a Dog
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875
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.