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 “Layla and Majnun” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:34 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.
Layla Visiting Majnun in the Desert, by Becharam Das Dutta

Layla Visiting Majnun in the Desert

Becharam Das Dutta · August 26, 1856

Public domainThe Met
Layla and Majnun

Layla and Majnun

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th 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 · 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Public domainThe Met
Layla and Majnun

Layla and Majnun

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Majnun in the Wilderness

Majnun in the Wilderness

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

Public domainThe Met
Allen's Swamp Monkey

Allen's Swamp Monkey

Artist not stated in the record · 2016:03:23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives

Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Samples, by Orinoka Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Samples

Orinoka Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emaciated Horse and Rider

Emaciated Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture, by Powell & Co.

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture

Powell & Co. · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Laila and Majnun in School", Folio 129 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Laila and Majnun in School", Folio 129 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Embroidery patterns

Embroidery patterns

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Laila and Majnun

Laila and Majnun

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt, by Unidentified

Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt

Unidentified · 1965-1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Majnun in the Wilderness

Majnun in the Wilderness

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

Public domainThe Met
Covered Goblet Depicting Four Continents

Covered Goblet Depicting Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Firman of Muhammad Shah Qajar

Firman of Muhammad Shah Qajar

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1250 AH/1835 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Ja'far Baisunghuri

"Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

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

Public domainThe Met
Representative Journals and Journalists of America, by Buek & Lindner Lithography Company, active 1880 - 1890?

Representative Journals and Journalists of America

Buek & Lindner Lithography Company, active 1880 - 1890? · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Divan (Collected Works) of Jami, by Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami

Divan (Collected Works) of Jami

Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Soffit and Vase Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Soffit and Vase Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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. 281 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1463460 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-28 08:34 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.