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 “Mir Kalan Khan” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Gathering of Holy Men of Different Faiths
Mir Kalan Khan · ca. 1770–75

Deer-stalking at night
Attributed to Mir Kalan Khan · 18th century

"Bhil Couple Hunting Deer at Night", Folio from the Davis Album
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Gerbillus gleadowi
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1965

"Portrait of Khan Dauran Bahadur Nusrat Jang", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Murad · verso: ca. 1640; recto: 1530–50

"Portrait of Sayyid Abu'l Muzaffar Khan, Khan Jahan Barha", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Lalchand · recto: ca. 1630; verso: ca.1530–50

Rousettus leschenaultii
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1965

"Portrait of Mulla Muhammad Khan Vali of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Hashim · recto: ca. 1620; verso: 1537–47

Juniperus semiglobosa Regel
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1882

"Portrait of Qilich Khan Turani", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
La'lchand · recto: ca. 1640; verso: ca. 1530–50

Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1965

"Portrait of Jahangir Beg, Jansipar Khan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Balchand · verso: ca. 1627; recto: ca. 1530–50

Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1966

"Portrait of Zamana Beg, Mahabat Khan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Manohar · recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530–40

Solenanthus olgae Regel & Smirn.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1882

"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

Soliva anthemifolia (Juss.) Sweet
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1968

"Portrait of Raja Bikramajit (Sundar Das)", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Bichitr · recto: ca. 1620; verso: ca. 1540

Gentiana decumbens L. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1882 to 3 Jul 1882

"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Manohar · recto: ca. 1615; verso: ca. 1530–45

Gerbillus gleadowi
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1965

"Portrait of Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II of Bijapur", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Hashim · verso: ca. 1620; recto: 1534 or later

Tatera indica
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1965
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. 26 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. 1623 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 17:52 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.