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 “Mir 'Ali Haravi” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:05 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.

"Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mansur

"Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Mansur · verso: ca. 1615–20; recto: ca. 1535–45

Public domainThe Met
"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Govardhan

"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Govardhan · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
'Unwan from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mir 'Ali Haravi

'Unwan from the Shah Jahan Album

Mir 'Ali Haravi · recto: ca. 1630–40; verso: ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
"Unwan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mir 'Ali Haravi

"Unwan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Mir 'Ali Haravi · recto and verso: ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Rosette Bearing the Name and Title of Emperor Aurangzeb (Recto), from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mir 'Ali Haravi

Rosette Bearing the Name and Title of Emperor Aurangzeb (Recto), from the Shah Jahan Album

Mir 'Ali Haravi · recto: ca. 1658; verso: ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mir 'Ali Haravi

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Mir 'Ali Haravi · recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
"Portrait of Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Hashim

"Portrait of Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Hashim · verso: ca. 1620; recto: 1534 or later

Public domainThe Met
"Page of Calligraphy Illuminated with Animals and Plants in a Field of Flowers", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Nanha

"Page of Calligraphy Illuminated with Animals and Plants in a Field of Flowers", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Nanha · verso: ca. 1610–15; recto: ca.1535–45

Public domainThe Met
"Portrait of Jahangir Beg, Jansipar Khan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Balchand

"Portrait of Jahangir Beg, Jansipar Khan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Balchand · verso: ca. 1627; recto: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
"Portrait of Khan Dauran Bahadur Nusrat Jang", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Murad

"Portrait of Khan Dauran Bahadur Nusrat Jang", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Murad · verso: ca. 1640; recto: 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
"Great Hornbill", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mansur

"Great Hornbill", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Mansur · recto: ca. 1540; verso: ca. 1615–20

Public domainThe Met
"Portrait of Mulla Muhammad Khan Vali of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Hashim

"Portrait of Mulla Muhammad Khan Vali of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Hashim · recto: ca. 1620; verso: 1537–47

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. 76 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 2026-08-26 16:05 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.