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 “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

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.
Illuminated Pages from a Dispersed DharanI Manuscript

Illuminated Pages from a Dispersed DharanI Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Cloud and Boat Sketches, Hudson, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Cloud and Boat Sketches, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 30, 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · dated 531 AH/1137 CE

Public domainThe Met
Page from an Antiphonal

Page from an Antiphonal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
A page from a Book of Dreams/Omens

A page from a Book of Dreams/Omens

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Babur Entertains in Sultan Ibrahim Lodi's Palace from a Baburnama, by Farrukh Beg (active early 1580s–1619)

Babur Entertains in Sultan Ibrahim Lodi's Palace from a Baburnama

Farrukh Beg (active early 1580s–1619) · ca. 1585

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript, by Muhammad al-Zanjani

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Muhammad al-Zanjani · dated 531 AH/1137 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ocean, by Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca. 1753 - 1784

Ocean

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of Flower Studies, by Master of Claude de France

Book of Flower Studies

Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

Public domainThe Met
The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a Sundar Shringar, by Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778)

The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a Sundar Shringar

Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778) · ca. 1750-1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Sale agreement and convent transfer of power in colonial New Spain

Sale agreement and convent transfer of power in colonial New Spain

Artist not stated in the record · February 1724

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Ja'far Baisunghuri

Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Ja'far Baisunghuri · 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page

Title Page

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Ja'far Baisunghuri

Illuminated Opening Page Titled Laila and Majnun from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Ja'far Baisunghuri · dated 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Public domainThe Met
Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated, by Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804

Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated

Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · 1776–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Gospels in Armenian

Four Gospels in Armenian

Artist not stated in the record · 1434/35

Public domainThe Met
Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated, by Francesco Panini, ca. 1725 – ca. 1794

Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated

Francesco Panini, ca. 1725 – ca. 1794 · before 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Parinirvana of Buddha, from a Prajnaparamita manuscript

Parinirvana of Buddha, from a Prajnaparamita manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1330s

Public domainThe Met
Certificate of Authorization for the Title of "Von" for Johann Ferdinand Richter, by Franz Mayer, Austrian, active 1700s

Certificate of Authorization for the Title of "Von" for Johann Ferdinand Richter

Franz Mayer, Austrian, active 1700s · April 7, 1785

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. 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.