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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of Muhammad Shah
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Waa-pa-shaw
Unidentified Artist · 1838

Penbox with Portrait of Muhammad Shah Qajar
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Muhammad Ali v. Floyd Patterson boxing ticket
Artist not stated in the record · 1963

Portrait of Muhammad Shah Qajar and his Vizier Haj Mirza Aghasi
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 19th century

Portrait of Asalat Khan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645

The House of Bijapur
Kamal Muhammad · ca. 1680

Portrait of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, of Bijapur (d.1626) (?)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio 23v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

Ticket for World Heavyweight Championship fight of Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay
Artist not stated in the record · Feburary 25, 1964

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

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

Star-Shaped Plaque
Muhammad Talib Gilani · first half 16th century

Lá-shah-le-stáw-hix, Man Chief, a Republican Pawnee
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

"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

Jee-hé-o-hó-shah, Cannot Be Thrown Down, a Warrior
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

"Zahhak is Told His Fate", Folio 29v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1524

Eh-toh'k-pah-she-pée-shah, Black Moccasin, aged Chief
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Book of Prayers, Surat al-Yasin and Surat al-Fath
Ahmad Nairizi · dated 1132 AH/1719–20 CE

Portrait of Nadir Shah
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

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

Court ladies playing with fireworks
Attributed to Muhammad Afzal (active 1740-1780) · ca. 1740
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.