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 “Processional Mask of Hindu Deity” — 53 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:26 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.
Processional Mask of Hindu Deity

Processional Mask of Hindu Deity

Artist not stated in the record · Probably 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Mask of Hindu Deity

Processional Mask of Hindu Deity

Artist not stated in the record · Probably 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Menu for the Ball Given by James Hazen Hyde, January 31, 1905, by Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

Menu for the Ball Given by James Hazen Hyde, January 31, 1905

Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Mask of Hindu Deity

Processional Mask of Hindu Deity

Artist not stated in the record · Probably 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")

Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask of Bhairava

Mask of Bhairava

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Candlestick

Design for a Candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask of Vaikuntha Vishnu

Mask of Vaikuntha Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Durga fighting the rakshashas Shunga and Nishunga, from a Devi Mahatmya

Durga fighting the rakshashas Shunga and Nishunga, from a Devi Mahatmya

Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bhairava

Bhairava

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Lit à la Reine, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Lit à la Reine

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanuman Conversing

Hanuman Conversing

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Knob of a Processional Knot

Project for the Knob of a Processional Knot

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of a Deity

Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of a Deity

Artist not stated in the record · probably 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of a Deity

Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of a Deity

Artist not stated in the record · probably 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), 1893

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of Varaha

Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of Varaha

Artist not stated in the record · probably 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Processional Lamp

Design for a Processional Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of Ganesha

Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of Ganesha

Artist not stated in the record · probably 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Processional Cross, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Processional Cross

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Processional, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Processional

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

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. 13 matched · 13 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. 2859515 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 13:26 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.