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 “Shiva Seated with Parvati” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:43 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.
Shiva Seated with Parvati

Shiva Seated with Parvati

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Shiva and Parvati on a tiger skin: Anakūl Nayaka folio from a Rasamanjari, by Attributed to Golu, son of Devidasa

Shiva and Parvati on a tiger skin: Anakūl Nayaka folio from a Rasamanjari

Attributed to Golu, son of Devidasa · ca. 1710 - ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva Seated with Parvati

Shiva Seated with Parvati

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Sadashiva worshipped by Parvati, by Attributed to Devidasa (Indian, active 1690-1695)

Sadashiva worshipped by Parvati

Attributed to Devidasa (Indian, active 1690-1695) · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva Seated with Parvati (Uma Maheshvara)

Shiva Seated with Parvati (Uma Maheshvara)

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Worship of Shri Nathji

Worship of Shri Nathji

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva and Parvati Playing Chaupar: Folio from a Rasamanjari Series, by Devidasa of Nurpur

Shiva and Parvati Playing Chaupar: Folio from a Rasamanjari Series

Devidasa of Nurpur · dated 1694–95

Public domainThe Met
Queen Sembiyan Mahadevi as the Goddess Uma

Queen Sembiyan Mahadevi as the Goddess Uma

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva Seated with Uma (Umamaheshvara)

Shiva Seated with Uma (Umamaheshvara)

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Armchair with slip seat, by John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857

Armchair with slip seat

John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva, by Nritya Lal Datta

Shiva

Nritya Lal Datta · ca. 1850–70

Public domainThe Met
Chair with corn husk seat woven by Johnnie Ree Jackson, by Johnnie Ree Jackson, American, born 1904

Chair with corn husk seat woven by Johnnie Ree Jackson

Johnnie Ree Jackson, American, born 1904 · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Posthumous Portrait of a Queen as Parvati

Posthumous Portrait of a Queen as Parvati

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
side chair, by Charles Rohlfs, 1853–1936

side chair

Charles Rohlfs, 1853–1936 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva and Parvati with their Sons Karttikeya and Ganesha and the Calf Bull

Shiva and Parvati with their Sons Karttikeya and Ganesha and the Calf Bull

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Barstool with black vinyl cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse, by Unidentified

Barstool with black vinyl cover from Muse Bar, the home bar of Isaiah Muse

Unidentified · 1970s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shri Shankara Shiva

Shri Shankara Shiva

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890–20

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Carriage Box Seat (Driver’s Seat) and Body, by Louis Van Nerven, Dutch, active ca. 1750

Design for a Carriage Box Seat (Driver’s Seat) and Body

Louis Van Nerven, Dutch, active ca. 1750 · 1755–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rondel with a Racing Male Deity Cradling His Consort (Probably Shiva and Parvati)

Rondel with a Racing Male Deity Cradling His Consort (Probably Shiva and Parvati)

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva and Parvati

Shiva and Parvati

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Audience chairs from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show at Harpo Studios

Audience chairs from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show at Harpo Studios

Artist not stated in the record · after 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shiva, Parvati, and Their Son Skanda (Somaskandamurti)

Shiva, Parvati, and Their Son Skanda (Somaskandamurti)

Artist not stated in the record · early 11th century

Public domainThe Met
The Happy Satyr with His Family, plate 10 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

The Happy Satyr with His Family, plate 10 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

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. 54 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 253910 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 09:43 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.