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 “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

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.
A Gathering of Holy Men of Different Faiths, by Mir Kalan Khan

A Gathering of Holy Men of Different Faiths

Mir Kalan Khan · ca. 1770–75

Public domainThe Met
Deer-stalking at night, by Attributed to Mir Kalan Khan

Deer-stalking at night

Attributed to Mir Kalan Khan · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bhil Couple Hunting Deer at Night", Folio from the Davis Album

"Bhil Couple Hunting Deer at Night", Folio from the Davis Album

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

Public domainThe Met
Gerbillus gleadowi

Gerbillus gleadowi

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"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
"Portrait of Sayyid Abu'l Muzaffar Khan, Khan Jahan Barha", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Lalchand

"Portrait of Sayyid Abu'l Muzaffar Khan, Khan Jahan Barha", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

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

Public domainThe Met
Rousettus leschenaultii

Rousettus leschenaultii

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"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
Juniperus semiglobosa Regel

Juniperus semiglobosa Regel

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Portrait of Qilich Khan Turani", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by La'lchand

"Portrait of Qilich Khan Turani", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

La'lchand · recto: ca. 1640; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.

Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"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
Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir.

Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Portrait of Zamana Beg, Mahabat Khan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Manohar

"Portrait of Zamana Beg, Mahabat Khan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Manohar · recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Solenanthus olgae Regel & Smirn.

Solenanthus olgae Regel & Smirn.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"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
Soliva anthemifolia (Juss.) Sweet

Soliva anthemifolia (Juss.) Sweet

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Portrait of Raja Bikramajit (Sundar Das)", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Bichitr

"Portrait of Raja Bikramajit (Sundar Das)", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Bichitr · recto: ca. 1620; verso: ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Gentiana decumbens L. f.

Gentiana decumbens L. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1882 to 3 Jul 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Manohar

"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Manohar · recto: ca. 1615; verso: ca. 1530–45

Public domainThe Met
Gerbillus gleadowi

Gerbillus gleadowi

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"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
Tatera indica

Tatera indica

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 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.