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. 17 shown for “Sahib Ram” — 46 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 10:36 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.
Head of Krishna: cartoon for a mural of the Raslila, by Sahib Ram

Head of Krishna: cartoon for a mural of the Raslila

Sahib Ram · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Twelve Earrings, by Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century

Designs for Twelve Earrings

Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Singer and Sarinda Player, by Sahib Ram

Singer and Sarinda Player

Sahib Ram · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Ram's Head

Ram's Head

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman of the Court Dressed as Radha, by Ramji

A Woman of the Court Dressed as Radha

Ramji · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Jatropha oaxacana J. Jiménez Ram. & R. Torres

Jatropha oaxacana J. Jiménez Ram. & R. Torres

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Manya Sahib Man Rup Sagarji, by Manak

Portrait of Manya Sahib Man Rup Sagarji

Manak · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon for Silk Damask: Cornucopias with Rams' Heads

Cartoon for Silk Damask: Cornucopias with Rams' Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bhagat Sen Worshipping Vishnupada

Bhagat Sen Worshipping Vishnupada

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by P. Moithey, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

P. Moithey, French, active 18th century · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jatropha rzedowskii J. Jiménez Ram.

Jatropha rzedowskii J. Jiménez Ram.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jatropha rzedowskii J. Jiménez Ram.

Jatropha rzedowskii J. Jiménez Ram.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jatropha rzedowskii J. Jiménez Ram.

Jatropha rzedowskii J. Jiménez Ram.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boldoa ovatifolia Ram. Goyena

Boldoa ovatifolia Ram. Goyena

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boldoa ovatifolia Ram. Goyena

Boldoa ovatifolia Ram. Goyena

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phylloscirpus boliviensis (Barros) Dhooge & Goetgh.

Phylloscirpus boliviensis (Barros) Dhooge & Goetgh.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Croton acapulcensis Martínez Gordillo & J. Jiménez Ram.

Croton acapulcensis Martínez Gordillo & J. Jiménez Ram.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1959

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 880 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-09 10:36 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.