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. 16 shown for “The God Indra Worships Ganesha, folio from the Tehri Garhwal series of the Gita Govinda” — 47 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:23 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.
The God Indra Worships Ganesha, folio from the Tehri Garhwal series of the Gita Govinda

The God Indra Worships Ganesha, folio from the Tehri Garhwal series of the Gita Govinda

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Xylocopa

Xylocopa

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Xylocopa

Xylocopa

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Radha with Her Confidant, Pining for Krishna", Folio from the "Second" or "Tehri Garhwal" Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherd)

"Radha with Her Confidant, Pining for Krishna", Folio from the "Second" or "Tehri Garhwal" Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherd)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series, by Attributed to the Master of the Court of Mankot (active early 18th century)

Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series

Attributed to the Master of the Court of Mankot (active early 18th century) · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Krishna and the Gopis on the Bank of the Yamuna River", Folio from the "Second" or "Tehri Garhwal" Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherd)

"Krishna and the Gopis on the Bank of the Yamuna River", Folio from the "Second" or "Tehri Garhwal" Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherd)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Krishna Vishvarupa

Krishna Vishvarupa

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Worship of Shri Nathji

Worship of Shri Nathji

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa

Xylocopa

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa

Xylocopa

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa

Xylocopa

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa

Xylocopa

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa

Xylocopa

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Xylocopa

Xylocopa

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phippsia himalaica Hook. f.

Phippsia himalaica Hook. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1883

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3115587 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 16:23 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.