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. 11 shown for “Amir Shahi of Sabzavar” — 46 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Anthology of Persian Poetry
Amir Shahi of Sabzavar · 16th century

Portrait of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, of Bijapur (d.1626) (?)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Page of Calligraphy
Muhammad Husayn al-Katib · late 16th century

A Christian subject: The Madonna and Child
Probably by Farrukh Beg (active early 1580s–1619) · ca. 1605-1610
Portrait of Emperor Jahangir
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–20

The Mausoleum of Amir Khusero, at the Ancient City of Delhi, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

"Portrait of Jahangir Beg, Jansipar Khan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Balchand · verso: ca. 1627; recto: ca. 1530–50

Beret from an S1W uniform
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1992

"Portrait of Raja Bikramajit (Sundar Das)", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Bichitr · recto: ca. 1620; verso: ca. 1540

× Rhyncattleanthe Amir P. Domazet II
Artist not stated in the record

"Portrait of Muhammad Ali Baig", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Artist not stated in the record · recto and verso: early 19th century
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2858553 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 17:04 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.