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 “Begging Bowl (Kashkul)” — 64 records examined, 17 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.
Begging Bowl (Kashkul)

Begging Bowl (Kashkul)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1247 AH/1831–32 CE

Public domainThe Met
Romulea bulbocodioides var. minor Bég.

Romulea bulbocodioides var. minor Bég.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beggar's Bowl (Kashkul)

Beggar's Bowl (Kashkul)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1210 AH/1795–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ammon Begs the King to Summon his Sister Thamar, by Martin Van Heemskerk, Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574

Ammon Begs the King to Summon his Sister Thamar

Martin Van Heemskerk, Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574 · 1559

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Begging Bowl, by Yar Muhammad

Begging Bowl

Yar Muhammad · dated 1130 AH/1717–18 CE

Public domainThe Met
Begging Dance, Sauk and Fox, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Begging Dance, Sauk and Fox

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835-1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beggar's Bowl (Kashkul)

Beggar's Bowl (Kashkul)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Romulea sulphurea Bég.

Romulea sulphurea Bég.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beggar's Bowl (Kashkul)

Beggar's Bowl (Kashkul)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Myosotis ambigens (Bég.) Grau

Myosotis ambigens (Bég.) Grau

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Begging Bowl

Begging Bowl

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Romulea abyssinica Bég.

Romulea abyssinica Bég.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beggar's Bowl (Kashkul)

Beggar's Bowl (Kashkul)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Apocynum pseudomedium Bég. & Belosersky

Apocynum pseudomedium Bég. & Belosersky

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"

Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Vicia orientalis (Boiss.) Bég. & Diratz.

Vicia orientalis (Boiss.) Bég. & Diratz.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Apr 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Dervish With a Lion", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Padarath

"Dervish With a Lion", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Padarath · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Mendiante a la Sébille (The Female Beggar with the Begging Bowl), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons), by Jacques Callot

La Mendiante a la Sébille (The Female Beggar with the Begging Bowl), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

Jacques Callot · ca. 1623

Public domainThe Met
Rhinanthus personatus Bég.

Rhinanthus personatus Bég.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1911 to 18 Jul 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse Copy of La Mendiante a La Sébille (The Female Beggar with The Begging Bowl), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons), by Anonymous

Reverse Copy of La Mendiante a La Sébille (The Female Beggar with The Begging Bowl), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

Anonymous · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Trachomitum venetum var. microphyllum (Bég. & Beloserky) Woodson

Trachomitum venetum var. microphyllum (Bég. & Beloserky) Woodson

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with mythological scene, by Metropolitan Painter

Vessel with mythological scene

Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
Plantago libyca Bég. & A. Vacc.

Plantago libyca Bég. & A. Vacc.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1914

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. 26 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. 27516 matched · 40 examined · 13 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.