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. 12 shown for “Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad Babavaih” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:08 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Tile Panel in the form of an Architectural Niche, by Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad Babavaih

Tile Panel in the form of an Architectural Niche

Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad Babavaih · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tombstone of Abu Sa'd ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Hasan Karwaih, by Ahmad ibn Muhammad Astak

Tombstone of Abu Sa'd ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Hasan Karwaih

Ahmad ibn Muhammad Astak · dated 545 AH/1150 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
"Rustam Pleads for Tus Before Kai Khusrau," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Rustam Pleads for Tus Before Kai Khusrau," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
"The Four Knights of Kai Khusrau in the Mountains", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Four Knights of Kai Khusrau in the Mountains", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Timur before Battle", Folio from a Dispersed Copy of the Zafarnama (Book of Victories) of Sharaf al-din 'Ali Yazdi, by Sharaf al-din 'Ali Yazdi

"Timur before Battle", Folio from a Dispersed Copy of the Zafarnama (Book of Victories) of Sharaf al-din 'Ali Yazdi

Sharaf al-din 'Ali Yazdi · 839 AH/1436 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Rustam Discoursing with Isfandiyar", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Rustam Discoursing with Isfandiyar", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Kharrad Recognizes the "Princess" as being an Automaton", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Kharrad Recognizes the "Princess" as being an Automaton", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Iranian and Turanian Armies in Combat", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Iranian and Turanian Armies in Combat", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
"Siyavush Displays his Skill at Polo before Afrasiyab," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Siyavush Displays his Skill at Polo before Afrasiyab," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tray of Yemeni Sultan al-Mu'ayyad ibn Yusuf, by Ahmad ibn Husayn al-Mosuli

Tray of Yemeni Sultan al-Mu'ayyad ibn Yusuf

Ahmad ibn Husayn al-Mosuli · ca. 1296–1321

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. 45 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:08 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.