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. 23 shown for “Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:02 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.
Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepisanthes senegalensis (Poir.) Leenh.

Lepisanthes senegalensis (Poir.) Leenh.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Aglaia sexipetala Griff.

Aglaia sexipetala Griff.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Elaeocarpus miegei Weibel

Elaeocarpus miegei Weibel

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Conandrium polyanthum (Lauterb. & K. Schum.) Mez

Conandrium polyanthum (Lauterb. & K. Schum.) Mez

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva

Shiva

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Acronychia trifoliolata Zoll. & Moritzi var. trifoliolata

Acronychia trifoliolata Zoll. & Moritzi var. trifoliolata

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linga with One Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Linga with One Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Myristica globosa Warb.

Myristica globosa Warb.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva Linga

Shiva Linga

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Palaquium sp.

Palaquium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linga Altar with Four Faces of Shiva

Linga Altar with Four Faces of Shiva

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1045

Public domainThe Met
Arctogalidia trivirgata

Arctogalidia trivirgata

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shri Shankara Shiva

Shri Shankara Shiva

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890–20

Public domainThe Met
Garcinia dulcis (Roxb.) Kurz

Garcinia dulcis (Roxb.) Kurz

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/5/73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Brahmanical Triad: Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu

The Brahmanical Triad: Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Sundamys muelleri

Sundamys muelleri

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Śankh

Śankh

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Macaca fascicularis fascicularis

Macaca fascicularis fascicularis

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Linga Cover with Four Faces of Shiva (Caturmukhalinga)

Linga Cover with Four Faces of Shiva (Caturmukhalinga)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2897824 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 02:02 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.