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. 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

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.
Portrait of Mirza Hashem Amin Khalvat, by Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk

Portrait of Mirza Hashem Amin Khalvat

Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Seated youth, by Abu'l Hasan (born 1588 or 1589)

Seated youth

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Farrukh Khan Amin al-Dawla Kashi, by Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk

Portrait of Farrukh Khan Amin al-Dawla Kashi

Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Beni Hasan, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Beni Hasan

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Mirza Muhammad Ebrahim Khan Saham al-Mulk, by Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk

Portrait of Mirza Muhammad Ebrahim Khan Saham al-Mulk

Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk · ca. 1856–57

Public domainThe Met
Bromus intermedius Gussone

Bromus intermedius Gussone

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Apr 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Abu'l Hasan

"Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Abu'l Hasan · recto: ca. 1610–15; verso ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Polypogon interruptus Kunth

Polypogon interruptus Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of `Ali Quli Mirza, I`tizad al-Saltana, by Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk

Portrait of `Ali Quli Mirza, I`tizad al-Saltana

Abu`l Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sani' al-Mulk · dated 1273 AH/1856–57 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cymbopogon iwarancusa (Jones) Schult.

Cymbopogon iwarancusa (Jones) Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rustam Pleads for Tus Before Kai Khusrau," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Rustam Pleads for Tus Before Kai Khusrau," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
Isachne himalaica Hook. f.

Isachne himalaica Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Dec 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria nodosa Parl.

Digitaria nodosa Parl.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Four Knights of Kai Khusrau in the Mountains", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"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

Public domainThe Met
Scrophularia striata Boiss.

Scrophularia striata Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Elatinoides ramosissima (Walter) Wettst.

Elatinoides ramosissima (Walter) Wettst.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Kharrad Recognizes the "Princess" as being an Automaton", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Kharrad Recognizes the "Princess" as being an Automaton", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pluchea lanceolata (DC.) C.B. Clarke

Pluchea lanceolata (DC.) C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Iranian and Turanian Armies in Combat", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Iranian and Turanian Armies in Combat", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ferula stewartiana O.E. Schulz

Ferula stewartiana O.E. Schulz

Artist not stated in the record · May 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rustam Discoursing with Isfandiyar", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Rustam Discoursing with Isfandiyar", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sedum pallidum M. Bieb.

Sedum pallidum M. Bieb.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1939

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. 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.