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 “Abu'l Hasan” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Mirza Hashem Amin Khalvat
Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk · mid-19th century

Seated youth
Abu'l Hasan (born 1588 or 1589) · ca. 1600

Portrait of Farrukh Khan Amin al-Dawla Kashi
Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk · mid-19th century

Beni Hasan
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · 1844

Portrait of Mirza Muhammad Ebrahim Khan Saham al-Mulk
Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk · ca. 1856–57
Bromus intermedius Gussone
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Apr 1922

"Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Abu'l Hasan · recto: ca. 1610–15; verso ca. 1540
Polypogon interruptus Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1929

Portrait of `Ali Quli Mirza, I`tizad al-Saltana
Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk · dated 1273 AH/1856–57 CE

Cymbopogon iwarancusa (Jones) Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1934

"Rustam Pleads for Tus Before Kai Khusrau," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Isachne himalaica Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Dec 1916

"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE
Digitaria nodosa Parl.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1934

"The Four Knights of Kai Khusrau in the Mountains", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Scrophularia striata Boiss.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1929

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Elatinoides ramosissima (Walter) Wettst.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1928

"Kharrad Recognizes the "Princess" as being an Automaton", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Pluchea lanceolata (DC.) C.B. Clarke
Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1925

"Iranian and Turanian Armies in Combat", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Ferula stewartiana O.E. Schulz
Artist not stated in the record · May 1934

"Rustam Discoursing with Isfandiyar", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Sedum pallidum M. Bieb.
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1939
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. 39 matched · 24 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. 40 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 15:12 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.