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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Layla Visiting Majnun in the Desert
Becharam Das Dutta · August 26, 1856

Layla and Majnun
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

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

Layla and Majnun
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Allen's Swamp Monkey
Artist not stated in the record · 2016:03:23

Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

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

Emaciated Horse and Rider
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture
Powell & Co. · 1865

"Laila and Majnun in School", Folio 129 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

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

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

Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt
Unidentified · 1965-1980

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

Covered Goblet Depicting Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–70

Firman of Muhammad Shah Qajar
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1250 AH/1835 CE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1879

"Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Ja'far Baisunghuri · 835 AH/1431–32 CE

Representative Journals and Journalists of America
Buek & Lindner Lithography Company, active 1880 - 1890? · 1882

Divan (Collected Works) of Jami
Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami · ca. 1480

Soffit and Vase Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788
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.