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. 22 shown for “Attributed to Lalchand” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:34 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 Sayyid Abu'l Muzaffar Khan, Khan Jahan Barha", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Lalchand

"Portrait of Sayyid Abu'l Muzaffar Khan, Khan Jahan Barha", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Lalchand · recto: ca. 1630; verso: ca.1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Jahangir Giving Books to Shaykhs, from the St. Petersburg Album, by Attributed to Lalchand

Jahangir Giving Books to Shaykhs, from the St. Petersburg Album

Attributed to Lalchand · ca. 1620; borders mid-18th century; calligraphy AH 1020 (1611-12)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man with His Hand on His Chest, by Attributed to Corneille de Lyon

Portrait of a Man with His Hand on His Chest

Attributed to Corneille de Lyon · 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Pair of stars and stripes slippers attributed to Elizabeth Keckly, by Elizabeth Keckly, American, 1818 - 1907

Pair of stars and stripes slippers attributed to Elizabeth Keckly

Elizabeth Keckly, American, 1818 - 1907 · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head Attributed to Arsinoe II

Head Attributed to Arsinoe II

Artist not stated in the record · 278–270 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher

Pitcher

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Face attributed to Ptolemy II Philadelphos or a contemporary

Face attributed to Ptolemy II Philadelphos or a contemporary

Artist not stated in the record · 284–246 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt, by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669

Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guitar, by Jean-Baptiste Voboam

Guitar

Jean-Baptiste Voboam · 1697

Public domainThe Met
Trophy with Instruments of Gardening, Plate 2 from "Suite de différentes Attributs, Trophées, et Groupes de fleurs," Suite II, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Trophy with Instruments of Gardening, Plate 2 from "Suite de différentes Attributs, Trophées, et Groupes de fleurs," Suite II

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief attributed to Petamenophis

Relief attributed to Petamenophis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–640 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Trophy with Gardening Implements, Plate 6 from "Suite de différentes Attributs, Trophées, et Groupes de fleurs," Suite II

Trophy with Gardening Implements, Plate 6 from "Suite de différentes Attributs, Trophées, et Groupes de fleurs," Suite II

Artist not stated in the record · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cheval fire screen, by Thomas Moore

Cheval fire screen

Thomas Moore · ca. 1755–60

Public domainThe Met
Trophy with Bucolic Implements, Plate 3 from "Suite de différentes Attributs, Trophées, et Groupes de fleurs," Suite II, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Trophy with Bucolic Implements, Plate 3 from "Suite de différentes Attributs, Trophées, et Groupes de fleurs," Suite II

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookstand, by Charles-Auguste Questel

Bookstand

Charles-Auguste Questel · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Augustus Jonathan Hubbard attributed to Ruth Henshaw Bascom

Augustus Jonathan Hubbard attributed to Ruth Henshaw Bascom

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upholstered armchair, originally from a set of eight, from Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland (one of a pair), by Thomas Roberts

Upholstered armchair, originally from a set of eight, from Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland (one of a pair)

Thomas Roberts · ca. 1689

Public domainThe Met
Rinceaux Design with Putto, plate 3, from A New Book of Ornaments Useful to all Artists

Rinceaux Design with Putto, plate 3, from A New Book of Ornaments Useful to all Artists

Artist not stated in the record · 1704

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard Table, by Thomas Seymour

Sideboard Table

Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

Public domainThe Met
The Young Archer, a sculpture attributed to Michelangelo, Plate 13 from an album "Drawings after Sculpture", by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

The Young Archer, a sculpture attributed to Michelangelo, Plate 13 from an album "Drawings after Sculpture"

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · 1759–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire, by Edward Pearce

Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire

Edward Pearce · ca. 1677–80

Public domainThe Met
Side chair, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Side chair

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

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. 18452 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 922972 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 08:34 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.