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 “Mosque Lamp of Amir Ahmad al-Mihmandar” — 18 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 21:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mosque Lamp of Amir Ahmad al-Mihmandar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325

Mosque Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Mosque Lamp for the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al-'Ala'i al-Bunduqdar
Artist not stated in the record · shortly after 1285

Tile Panel in the form of an Architectural Niche
Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad Babavaih · first half 14th century

Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun
'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35

Mosque Lamp of Amir Sayf al-Din Shaykhu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1349–55

Two elements from the minbar of Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Artist not stated in the record · dated 546 AH/1151 CE

Folio from the "Qur'an of `Umar Aqta'
`Umar Aqta' · late 14th–early 15th century (before 1405)

Calligraphic Roundel, inscribed "Ya 'Aziz" (Oh Mighty)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Section from the "Qur'an of `Umar Aqta'
`Umar Aqta' · late 14th–early 15th century (before 1405)

Section from a Qur'an Manuscript
`Umar Aqta' · late 14th–early 15th century (before 1405)

Fragment of a Pulpit (Minbar)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 546 AH/1151 CE
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. 18 matched · 18 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 21:18 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.