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 “"Yusuf before the Ladies of Cairo", Folio from Yusuf and Zulaykha” — 16 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:42 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.

"Yusuf before the Ladies of Cairo", Folio from Yusuf and Zulaykha

"Yusuf before the Ladies of Cairo", Folio from Yusuf and Zulaykha

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
"Zulaykha Bidding for Yusuf in the Slave Market in Egypt", Folio from Yusuf and Zulaykha

"Zulaykha Bidding for Yusuf in the Slave Market in Egypt", Folio from Yusuf and Zulaykha

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha Manuscript

Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
"Yusuf is Purchased by Zulaykha", Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha

"Yusuf is Purchased by Zulaykha", Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
"Yusuf and Zulaykha United After Potiphar's Death", Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha

"Yusuf and Zulaykha United After Potiphar's Death", Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
"Yusuf Summoned by Zulaykha to Serve at a Feast", Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha

"Yusuf Summoned by Zulaykha to Serve at a Feast", Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
"Zulaykha with her Handmaidens After her Second Dream of Yusuf", Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha

"Zulaykha with her Handmaidens After her Second Dream of Yusuf", Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
"Yusuf and Zulaikha", Folio 51r from a Bustan of Sa`di

"Yusuf and Zulaikha", Folio 51r from a Bustan of Sa`di

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–35

Public domainThe Met
"Yusuf Tending the Flocks", Folio of a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami, by Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami

"Yusuf Tending the Flocks", Folio of a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami

Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami · 1523–24

Public domainThe Met
"Zulaikha Seizing the Skirt of Joseph's Robe", Folio of a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami, by Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami

"Zulaikha Seizing the Skirt of Joseph's Robe", Folio of a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami

Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami · 1523–24

Public domainThe Met
"Yusuf Arriving in Egypt and Leaving the Ship in the Nile", Folio of a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami, by Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami

"Yusuf Arriving in Egypt and Leaving the Ship in the Nile", Folio of a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami

Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami · 930 AH/1523–24 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mansur

"Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Mansur · verso: ca. 1615–20; recto: ca. 1535–45

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. 16 matched · 16 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 16:42 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.