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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. 13 shown for “Shaikh Zain al–Din” — 25 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 13:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
An Orange-Headed Ground Thrush and a Death's-Head Moth on a Purple Ebony Orchid Branch
Shaikh Zain al–Din · dated 1778
Indo-Persian Planispheric Astrolabe
Artist not stated in the record · 1659
Illuminated Frontispiece of a Manuscript of the Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi · text: dated 892 AH/1487 CE; illumination: ca. 1600
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Habiballah of Sava · ca. 1600
"Shaikh San'an and the Christian Maiden", Folio 22v from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar · ca. 1600
Great Indian Fruit Bat
Bhawani Das · ca. 1777–82
"A Ruffian Spares the Life of a Poor Man", Folio 4v from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar · ca. 1600
Binding and Text-Block for the Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar · ca. 1600
Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar · ca. 1600
Nan va Halva (Breads and Sweets)
Muhammad Baha' al-Din al-'Amili · ca. 1690
"Shaikh San'an beneath the Window of the Christian Maiden", Folio18r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar · ca. 1600
Folio from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar · dated 892 AH/1486 CE
Page of Calligraphy from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar · dated 892 AH/1486 CE
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. 31 matched · 24 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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 13:15 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.