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. 12 shown for “Madhumadhavai Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:30 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Madhumadhavai Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Madhumadhavai Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Vilaval Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Vilaval Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Kakubha Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Kakubha Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Khambavati Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Khambavati Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

Public domainThe Met
Ramkali Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Ramkali Ragini: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Kedar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes), by Ruknuddin

Kedar Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Ruknuddin · ca. 1690–95

Public domainThe Met
Panchama Ragini: Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Panchama Ragini: Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Bhairavi Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Bhairavi Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Andhrayaki Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Andhrayaki Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Ragini Des Variri: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Ragini Des Variri: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Vairari Ragini, Wife of Bhairav Raga: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Vairari Ragini, Wife of Bhairav Raga: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sanveri Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Sanveri Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1710

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. 36 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 12:30 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.