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 “Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya” — 58 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:25 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.
A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses, by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya

A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses

Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Beret from an S1W uniform

Beret from an S1W uniform

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio 74 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio 74 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Artemisia sp.

Artemisia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/11/52

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Marriage of Khusrau and Shirin", Folio 104 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Marriage of Khusrau and Shirin", Folio 104 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/11/52

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Laila and Majnun in School", Folio 129 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Laila and Majnun in School", Folio 129 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Haloxylon sp.

Haloxylon sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/11/52

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1074–79 AH/1663–69 CE

Public domainThe Met
Salsola sp.

Salsola sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/11/52

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Laila Visiting Majnun in the Desert", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, by Ala al-Din Muhammad

"Laila Visiting Majnun in the Desert", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Ala al-Din Muhammad · 1520–25

Public domainThe Met
Salsola sp.

Salsola sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/11/52

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Sultan Sanjar and the Old Woman", Folio 17 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Sultan Sanjar and the Old Woman", Folio 17 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Indet. sp.

Indet. sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/11/52

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bahram Gur in the Yellow Palace on Sunday", Folio 213 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Bahram Gur in the Yellow Palace on Sunday", Folio 213 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Oloptum miliaceum Röser & H. R. Hamasha

Oloptum miliaceum Röser & H. R. Hamasha

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 14/7/33

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Overflap and Inside Cover of a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

Overflap and Inside Cover of a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ticket to a championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton

Ticket to a championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton

Artist not stated in the record · September 28, 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bahram Gur in the Sandal Palace on Thursday", Folio 230 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Bahram Gur in the Sandal Palace on Thursday", Folio 230 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

Artist not stated in the record · 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bahram Gur in the Red Palace on Tuesday", Folio 220 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Bahram Gur in the Red Palace on Tuesday", Folio 220 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
Headgear worn by Muhammad Ali

Headgear worn by Muhammad Ali

Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Khusrau Catches Sight of Shirin Bathing", Folio 50 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja, by Nizami

"Khusrau Catches Sight of Shirin Bathing", Folio 50 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Nizami · dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Mausoleum of Amir Khusero, at the Ancient City of Delhi, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

The Mausoleum of Amir Khusero, at the Ancient City of Delhi, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

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. 18 matched · 18 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. 2858475 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 2026-08-27 10:25 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.