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. 15 shown for “Radha as king (Sri Sri Rai Raja)” — 44 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:23 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.
Radha as king (Sri Sri Rai Raja)

Radha as king (Sri Sri Rai Raja)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885–95

Public domainThe Met
Krishna approaches Radha, folio from a Rasikpriya, by Nuruddin

Krishna approaches Radha, folio from a Rasikpriya

Nuruddin · dated 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815)

Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a Sundar Shringar, by Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778)

The poet Sundar Das before Emperor Shah Jahan, folio from a Sundar Shringar

Attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778) · ca. 1750-1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maharaja Sital Dev in Devotion

Maharaja Sital Dev in Devotion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Krishna playing with the gopis, folio from a Rasikpriya, by Ruknuddin (active ca. 1650-1697)

Krishna playing with the gopis, folio from a Rasikpriya

Ruknuddin (active ca. 1650-1697) · dated 1686 (Samvat 1743)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ternstroemia emarginata (Gardner) Choisy

Ternstroemia emarginata (Gardner) Choisy

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Oct 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diospyros insignis Thwaites

Diospyros insignis Thwaites

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/2/83

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nymphoides sp.

Nymphoides sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Acrotrema lanceolatum Hook.

Acrotrema lanceolatum Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uniyala wightiana (Arn.) H. Rob. & Skvarla

Uniyala wightiana (Arn.) H. Rob. & Skvarla

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Oct 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torenia travancorica Gamble

Torenia travancorica Gamble

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aporosa lanceolata Müll. Arg.

Aporosa lanceolata Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cissus gardneri Thwaites

Cissus gardneri Thwaites

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Oct 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hopea jucunda Thwaites

Hopea jucunda Thwaites

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1970

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 353730 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-29 02:23 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.