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 “"The Court of Ravana", Folio from a Ramayana” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:00 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.

"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
"The Court of Ravana", Folio from a Ramayana

"The Court of Ravana", Folio from a Ramayana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605

Public domainThe Met
Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series

Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series

Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series

Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series

Double-sided folio from a Ramayana series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
"The Death of King Dasharatha, the Father of Rama", Folio from a Ramayana

"The Death of King Dasharatha, the Father of Rama", Folio from a Ramayana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605

Public domainThe Met
"Rama Receives Sugriva and Jambavat, the Monkey and Bear Kings", Folio from a Ramayana

"Rama Receives Sugriva and Jambavat, the Monkey and Bear Kings", Folio from a Ramayana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605

Public domainThe Met
"The Awakening of Kumbhakarna in the Golden City of Lanka", Folio from a Ramayana

"The Awakening of Kumbhakarna in the Golden City of Lanka", Folio from a Ramayana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605

Public domainThe Met
Hanuman Revives Rama and Lakshmana with Medicinal Herbs: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series, by Nainsukh

Hanuman Revives Rama and Lakshmana with Medicinal Herbs: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Nainsukh · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Rama and Lakshmana as Boys Assist the Sage Vishvamitra: Folio from a dispersed Ramayana series, by Nainsukh

Rama and Lakshmana as Boys Assist the Sage Vishvamitra: Folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Nainsukh · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
The Monkey King Vali's Funeral Pyre: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series, by Nainsukh

The Monkey King Vali's Funeral Pyre: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Nainsukh · ca. 1780

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. 41 matched · 24 examined · 3 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 2026-08-28 21:00 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.