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 “Bottle, Falcon” — 52 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-11 03:06 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.
Bottle, Falcon

Bottle, Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porifera

Porifera

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, Falcon

Bottle, Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porifera

Porifera

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, Falcon

Bottle, Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porifera

Porifera

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, Falcon

Bottle, Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Polymastia sp.

Polymastia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle, Falcon Head

Bottle, Falcon Head

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porifera

Porifera

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief-decorated Lentoid Bottle ("New Year's Bottle"); Horus falcon in marshes on one side; cow goddess in marshes on the other

Relief-decorated Lentoid Bottle ("New Year's Bottle"); Horus falcon in marshes on one side; cow goddess in marshes on the other

Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Paramuricea sp.

Paramuricea sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Falcon

Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porifera

Porifera

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bridge and Spout Bottle with Falcon

Bridge and Spout Bottle with Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Iophon sp.

Iophon sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with owl, by Moche artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with owl

Moche artist(s) · 200–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Polymastia sp.

Polymastia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bridge and Spout Bottle with Falcoln

Bridge and Spout Bottle with Falcoln

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porifera

Porifera

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Falcoln

Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Falcoln

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Porifera

Porifera

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raptorial Bird Bottle

Raptorial Bird Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Porifera

Porifera

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2014

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. 12 matched · 12 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. 22637 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-11 03:06 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.