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 “Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:13 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.
Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Festuca caprina Nees

Festuca caprina Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Strix Candida description

Strix Candida description

Artist not stated in the record · 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sceloglaux Albifacies plate

Sceloglaux Albifacies plate

Artist not stated in the record · 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Strix Candida plate

Strix Candida plate

Artist not stated in the record · 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Birds of Australia title page

Birds of Australia title page

Artist not stated in the record · 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Kalila Visits the Imprisoned Dimna", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

"Kalila Visits the Imprisoned Dimna", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Birds of Australia list of plates

Birds of Australia list of plates

Artist not stated in the record · 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Kalila Upbraiding Dimna", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

"Kalila Upbraiding Dimna", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Krishna and the Bow, folio 24 from the ‘Tula Ram’ Bhagavata Purana

Krishna and the Bow, folio 24 from the ‘Tula Ram’ Bhagavata Purana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Monkey Tries Carpentry", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

"The Monkey Tries Carpentry", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
A Moose Hunt, by Bradlee Whidden

A Moose Hunt

Bradlee Whidden · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Lion and the Elephant Fighting", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

"The Lion and the Elephant Fighting", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Krishna steals the clothes of the gopis, folio from a Bhagavata Purana

Krishna steals the clothes of the gopis, folio from a Bhagavata Purana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Flight of the Tortoise", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

"The Flight of the Tortoise", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Facade of Modena Cath, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Facade of Modena Cath

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Lioness Advises her Son", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

"The Lioness Advises her Son", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Woman's Torso

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Dishonest Goldsmith is Hanged", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

"The Dishonest Goldsmith is Hanged", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

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. 492 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. 2074846 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 06:13 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.