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 “Illuminated Pages from a Dispersed DharanI Manuscript” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Illuminated Pages from a Dispersed DharanI Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Cloud and Boat Sketches, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 30, 1866

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · dated 531 AH/1137 CE

Page from an Antiphonal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

A page from a Book of Dreams/Omens
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Babur Entertains in Sultan Ibrahim Lodi's Palace from a Baburnama
Farrukh Beg (active early 1580s–1619) · ca. 1585

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Muhammad al-Zanjani · dated 531 AH/1137 CE

Ocean
Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca. 1753 - 1784 · 1773

Book of Flower Studies
Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a Sundar Shringar
Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778) · ca. 1750-1760

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Sale agreement and convent transfer of power in colonial New Spain
Artist not stated in the record · February 1724

Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Ja'far Baisunghuri · 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Title Page
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Ja'far Baisunghuri · dated 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · 1776–84

Four Gospels in Armenian
Artist not stated in the record · 1434/35

Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated
Francesco Panini, ca. 1725 – ca. 1794 · before 1787

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Parinirvana of Buddha, from a Prajnaparamita manuscript
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1330s

Certificate of Authorization for the Title of "Von" for Johann Ferdinand Richter
Franz Mayer, Austrian, active 1700s · April 7, 1785
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. 709 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. 1956002 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-03 23:18 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.