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. 16 shown for “Mosque Lamp of Sultan Barquq” — 61 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 00:29 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.
Mosque Lamp of Sultan Barquq

Mosque Lamp of Sultan Barquq

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1382–99

Public domainThe Met
Mosque of Sultan Bajazid I/derim, Brusa, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Mosque of Sultan Bajazid I/derim, Brusa

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosque Lamp

Mosque Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Bronze Chandelier, Kaid Bey Mosque, Cairo, by Alfred Normand, French, 1822–1909

Bronze Chandelier, Kaid Bey Mosque, Cairo

Alfred Normand, French, 1822–1909 · 1856–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosque Lamp for the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al-'Ala'i al-Bunduqdar

Mosque Lamp for the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al-'Ala'i al-Bunduqdar

Artist not stated in the record · shortly after 1285

Public domainThe Met
Rousettus aegyptiacus

Rousettus aegyptiacus

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceramic Vessel in the Shape of a Mosque Lamp

Ceramic Vessel in the Shape of a Mosque Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 1525–40

Public domainThe Met
Mosque Lamp

Mosque Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Mosque Lamp

Mosque Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Mosque Lamp Bearing the Name of the Mamluk Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir

Mosque Lamp Bearing the Name of the Mamluk Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340

Public domainThe Met
Rousettus aegyptiacus

Rousettus aegyptiacus

Artist not stated in the record · 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lamp

Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Lamp

Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Lamp

Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun, by 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki

Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun

'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35

Public domainThe Met
Fragments of a Lamp

Fragments of a Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

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. 21 matched · 21 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. 2860443 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-30 00:29 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.