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. 21 shown for “Mirza 'Ali” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:31 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.
Portrait of Mirza 'Ali Asghar Khan (Amin al-Mulk, Amin al-Sultan, Atabeg-i Azam), by Isma'il Jalayir

Portrait of Mirza 'Ali Asghar Khan (Amin al-Mulk, Amin al-Sultan, Atabeg-i Azam)

Isma'il Jalayir · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Tile fragment

Tile fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Firdausi's Parable of the Ship of Shi'ism", Folio 18v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Firdausi's Parable of the Ship of Shi'ism", Folio 18v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1530–35

Public domainThe Met
Rousettus leschenaultii

Rousettus leschenaultii

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Princely Hawking Party, by Mirza 'Ali

Princely Hawking Party

Mirza 'Ali · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Overflap and Inside Cover of a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

Overflap and Inside Cover of a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
"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
Mirza Sarab, by Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Mirza Sarab

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · 1927

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
Mirza Abul Fazl, by Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Mirza Abul Fazl

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Qur'an Manuscript with Lacquer Binding

Qur'an Manuscript with Lacquer Binding

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cricetulus migratorius

Cricetulus migratorius

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
recto: "Portrait of Raja Suraj Singh Rathor", verso: Page of Calligraphy. Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Bishan Das

recto: "Portrait of Raja Suraj Singh Rathor", verso: Page of Calligraphy. Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Bishan Das · recto: late 16th century; verso: ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Gerbillus gleadowi

Gerbillus gleadowi

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Meeting between Babur and Sultan 'Ali Mirza near Samarqand", Folio from a Baburnama (The Book of Babur)

"Meeting between Babur and Sultan 'Ali Mirza near Samarqand", Folio from a Baburnama (The Book of Babur)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Tatera indica

Tatera indica

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Dec 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Book Covers Depicting Fath 'Ali Shah Hunting

Pair of Book Covers Depicting Fath 'Ali Shah Hunting

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–1820

Public domainThe Met
Funambulus pennantii

Funambulus pennantii

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pen Box (Qalamdan) Depicting Shah Isma'il in a Battle against the Uzbeks

Pen Box (Qalamdan) Depicting Shah Isma'il in a Battle against the Uzbeks

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Alticola argentatus

Alticola argentatus

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1964

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. 28 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. 2613 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 09:31 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.