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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 “Bairadi Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:26 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.
Bairadi Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Bairadi Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605–6

Public domainThe Met
Lalit Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Lalit Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605-1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vilaval Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Vilaval Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Kakubha Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Kakubha Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kedar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes), by Ruknuddin

Kedar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Ruknuddin · ca. 1690–95

Public domainThe Met
Gauri Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Gauri Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nata Ragina: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes), by Mohamed

Nata Ragina: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Mohamed · 1714

Public domainThe Met
Vilaval Ragini

Vilaval Ragini

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bangali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Bangali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · 1709

Public domainThe Met
Bangali Ragini

Bangali Ragini

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desvarati Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Desvarati Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · 1605–06

Public domainThe Met
Kamod Ragini, by Attributed to the Sirohi Master (active ca. 1670-1690)

Kamod Ragini

Attributed to the Sirohi Master (active ca. 1670-1690) · ca. 1670-1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Setmalar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Setmalar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Desavarati Ragini

Desavarati Ragini

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Khambhavati Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Khambhavati Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675

Public domainThe Met
Vilaval Ragini, from a Ragamala

Vilaval Ragini, from a Ragamala

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690-95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Malashri Ragini from a Ragmala series

Malashri Ragini from a Ragmala series

Artist not stated in the record · 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bhairavi Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Bhairavi Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Kamod Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Kamod Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ramkali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Ramkali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1605–06

Public domainThe Met
Bhairavi Ragini (a musical mode): three figures before a shrine

Bhairavi Ragini (a musical mode): three figures before a shrine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ramkali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Ramkali Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1680

Public domainThe Met
Gauri Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Gauri Ragini, folio from a Ragamala

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625-1630

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. 44 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. 3977587 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 08:26 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.