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. 12 shown for “The Demon Hiranyaksha Departs the Demon Palace: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:45 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Demon Hiranyaksha Departs the Demon Palace: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

The Demon Hiranyaksha Departs the Demon Palace: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
The Gopis Plead with Krishna to Return Their Clothing: Folio from "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana, by Master of the "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana

The Gopis Plead with Krishna to Return Their Clothing: Folio from "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana

Master of the "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana · ca. 1560–65

Public domainThe Met
Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana

Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Rama Releases the Demon Spies Shuka and Sarana: Folio from the Siege of Lanka series, by Manaku

Rama Releases the Demon Spies Shuka and Sarana: Folio from the Siege of Lanka series

Manaku · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Krishna Battles the Armies of the Demon Naraka: Page from a Bhagavata Purana Manuscript

Krishna Battles the Armies of the Demon Naraka: Page from a Bhagavata Purana Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Krishna killing the crane demon Bakasura. Preparatory drawing for Bhagavata Purana series, by family of Manaku

Krishna killing the crane demon Bakasura. Preparatory drawing for Bhagavata Purana series

family of Manaku · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Folio from a Bhagavata Purana series

Folio from a Bhagavata Purana series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–1800

Public domainThe Met
Folio from a Bhagavata Purana series

Folio from a Bhagavata Purana series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–1800

Public domainThe Met
Krishna Subduing Kaliya, the Snake Demon: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series, by First generation after Manaku and Nainsukh

Krishna Subduing Kaliya, the Snake Demon: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

First generation after Manaku and Nainsukh · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
The Death of the Demoness Putana: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

The Death of the Demoness Putana: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Krishna and Balarama within a Walled Palace: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu)

Krishna and Balarama within a Walled Palace: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
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. 39 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:45 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.