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. 24 shown for “Portrait of Muhammad Shah” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:12 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 Muhammad Shah

Portrait of Muhammad Shah

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Reza Shah Pahlavi, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Reza Shah Pahlavi

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Waa-pa-shaw, by Unidentified Artist

Waa-pa-shaw

Unidentified Artist · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Penbox with Portrait of Muhammad Shah Qajar

Penbox with Portrait of Muhammad Shah Qajar

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Public domainThe Met
Muhammad Ali v. Floyd Patterson boxing ticket

Muhammad Ali v. Floyd Patterson boxing ticket

Artist not stated in the record · 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Muhammad Shah Qajar and his Vizier Haj Mirza Aghasi

Portrait of Muhammad Shah Qajar and his Vizier Haj Mirza Aghasi

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Asalat Khan

Portrait of Asalat Khan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The House of Bijapur, by Kamal Muhammad

The House of Bijapur

Kamal Muhammad · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, of Bijapur (d.1626) (?)

Portrait of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, of Bijapur (d.1626) (?)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio 23v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio 23v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Ticket for World Heavyweight Championship fight of Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay

Ticket for World Heavyweight Championship fight of Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay

Artist not stated in the record · Feburary 25, 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror Case Depicting the Meeting of Nasir al-Din Mirza and Tsar Nicholas I in Erivan and Satin Pouch, by Muhammad Isma'il Isfahani

Mirror Case Depicting the Meeting of Nasir al-Din Mirza and Tsar Nicholas I in Erivan and Satin Pouch

Muhammad Isma'il Isfahani · dated 1271 AH/1854 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eé-shah-kó-nee, Bow and Quiver, First Chief of the Tribe, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Eé-shah-kó-nee, Bow and Quiver, First Chief of the Tribe

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Star-Shaped Plaque, by Muhammad Talib Gilani

Star-Shaped Plaque

Muhammad Talib Gilani · first half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lá-shah-le-stáw-hix, Man Chief, a Republican Pawnee, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Lá-shah-le-stáw-hix, Man Chief, a Republican Pawnee

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Jee-hé-o-hó-shah, Cannot Be Thrown Down, a Warrior, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Jee-hé-o-hó-shah, Cannot Be Thrown Down, a Warrior

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Zahhak is Told His Fate", Folio 29v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

"Zahhak is Told His Fate", Folio 29v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1524

Public domainThe Met
Eh-toh'k-pah-she-pée-shah, Black Moccasin, aged Chief, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Eh-toh'k-pah-she-pée-shah, Black Moccasin, aged Chief

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of Prayers, Surat al-Yasin and Surat al-Fath, by Ahmad Nairizi

Book of Prayers, Surat al-Yasin and Surat al-Fath

Ahmad Nairizi · dated 1132 AH/1719–20 CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Nadir Shah

Portrait of Nadir Shah

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album Page with Calligraphy Exercise (siyah mashq) by Muhammad Shah Qajar (3rd Ruler of the Qajar Dynasty), by Muhammad Shah

Album Page with Calligraphy Exercise (siyah mashq) by Muhammad Shah Qajar (3rd Ruler of the Qajar Dynasty)

Muhammad Shah · dated Shawwal 1260 AH/October 1844 CE

Public domainThe Met
Court ladies playing with fireworks, by Attributed to Muhammad Afzal (active 1740-1780)

Court ladies playing with fireworks

Attributed to Muhammad Afzal (active 1740-1780) · ca. 1740

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. 274 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2861872 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 05:12 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.