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. 24 shown for “Portrait of Emperor Jahangir Praying” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Emperor Jahangir Praying
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Emperor Jahangir holding an orb
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Hawk Coin of the Emperor Akbar
Artist not stated in the record · dated 963 AH/1556 CE

Portrait of Jahangir
Unidentified · ca. 1620

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Lady with a Portrait of Jahangir
Unidentified · ca. 1603
Portrait of Emperor Jahangir
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–20

Jahangir
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Portrait of Emperor Akbar Praying
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a Sundar Shringar
Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778) · ca. 1750-1760

Portrait of a Man
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1470

Malvina Pray
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

Portrait Coin of the Emperor Jahangir
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1023 AH/1614 CE

Jahangir and Prince Khurram entertained by Nur Jahan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640-50

"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Balachand · recto: ca. 1610–15; verso: dated 1541

Malvina Pray Florence
John L. Magee, active 1844 - 1867 · 1853-60

Coin with Sign of Libra
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1034 AH/1625 CE

Malvina Pray Florence
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1857

Coin with Sign of Leo
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1033 AH/1624 CE

Seated youth
Abu'l Hasan (born 1588 or 1589) · ca. 1600

Coin
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1031 AH/1621–22 CE

Raja Gaj Singh of Marwar
Unidentified · 17th century

Coin
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1028 AH/1619 CE

Portrait of Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
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. 63 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. 2861657 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 2026-08-28 11:38 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.