OpenTwo 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 “Muhammad Husayn al-Katib” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Page of Calligraphy
Muhammad Husayn al-Katib · late 16th century
Divan of Sultan Husayn Baiqara
Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi · dated 905 AH/1500 CE
Illuminated Frontispiece of a Bustan of Sa`di
Sultan Muhammad Nur · dated 920 AH/1514 CE
Calligraphic Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 17th century
Tray of Yemeni Sultan al-Mu'ayyad ibn Yusuf
Ahmad ibn Husayn al-Mosuli · ca. 1296–1321
Dedicatory Inscription from a Mosque
Artist not stated in the record · dated 905 AH/1500 CE
"The Mi'raj or The Night Flight of Muhammad on his Steed Buraq", Folio 3v from a Bustan of Sa`di
Sultan Muhammad Nur · ca. 1525–35
"Bahram Gur in the Sandal Palace on Thursday", Folio 230 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE
"Prophet Muhammad Preaching", Folio from a Maqtal-i Al-i Rasul of Lami'i Chelebi
Lami'i Chelebi · late 16th century
Mail Shirt with Inscribed Rings
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
Tile with Niche Design
Artist not stated in the record · dated 712 AH/1312–13 CE
Pen Box (Qalamdan) with Inscriptions
Hasan Ramadan Shahi · early 16th century
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. 46 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 21:25 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.