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 “Twenty Tirthankaras: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:32 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 Twenty Tirthankaras: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

The Twenty Tirthankaras: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · 1461 (Samvat 1519)

Public domainThe Met
Twenty Tirthankaras: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

Twenty Tirthankaras: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Devananda's Fourteen Auspicious Dreams Foretelling the Birth of Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript, by Master of the Jaunpur Kalpasutra

Devananda's Fourteen Auspicious Dreams Foretelling the Birth of Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

Master of the Jaunpur Kalpasutra · ca. 1465

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
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript, by Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri · dated 707 AH/1307–8 CE

Public domainThe Met
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds), by Farid al-Din `Attar

Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Farid al-Din `Attar · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi, by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Public domainThe Met
Book of Hours, by Simon Bening

Book of Hours

Simon Bening · ca. 1530–35

Public domainThe Met
"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Public domainThe Met
Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, by Mu'in Musavvir

Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

Mu'in Musavvir · 1660s

Public domainThe Met
Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an", by Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri

Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an"

Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri · 706 AH/1306–7 CE

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. 76 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. 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 13:32 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.