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 “Vishnu Accompanied by Lakshmi and Sarasvati” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:39 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.
Vishnu Accompanied by Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Vishnu Accompanied by Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Lakshmi massaging the foot of Vishnu, by Composition attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778)

Lakshmi massaging the foot of Vishnu

Composition attributed to Nainsukh (active ca. 1710-1778) · ca. 1765-1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lakshmi

Lakshmi

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Public domainThe Met
Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Devi with Krishna and Vishnu in a Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645-1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu with His Consorts, Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Vishnu with His Consorts, Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Benten (Sarasvati) seated on a rock, by Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713)

Benten (Sarasvati) seated on a rock

Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu Accompanied by Garuda and Lakshmi

Vishnu Accompanied by Garuda and Lakshmi

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Plaque of Sarasvati (Goddess of Learning and Culture), by Unidentified

Plaque of Sarasvati (Goddess of Learning and Culture)

Unidentified · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Vishnu as Keshava, by Dasoja of Balligrama

Standing Vishnu as Keshava

Dasoja of Balligrama · first quarter of the 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Sarong

Sarong

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu Standing between His Consorts, Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Vishnu Standing between His Consorts, Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Head cloth (kain kepala)

Head cloth (kain kepala)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Cover with Vishnu Flanked by Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Manuscript Cover with Vishnu Flanked by Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Maharana Raj Singh I observing an elephant fight

Maharana Raj Singh I observing an elephant fight

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Vishnu with His Consorts, Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Standing Vishnu with His Consorts, Lakshmi and Sarasvati

Artist not stated in the record · ca. second half of the 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Sicista concolor

Sicista concolor

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu and Lakshmi Supported by Garuda

Vishnu and Lakshmi Supported by Garuda

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Head cloth (kain kepala)

Head cloth (kain kepala)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taūs (mayuri)

Taūs (mayuri)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Head cloth (kain kepala)

Head cloth (kain kepala)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vishnu on Garuda

Vishnu on Garuda

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narasimha, Vishnu’s Man-Lion Avatar

Narasimha, Vishnu’s Man-Lion Avatar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1750

Public domainThe Met
Bangali Ragini

Bangali Ragini

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

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. 24 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. 1683734 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 08:39 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.