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. 23 shown for “Falcon Box with Wrapped Contents” — 52 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:50 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.
Falcon Box with Wrapped Contents

Falcon Box with Wrapped Contents

Artist not stated in the record · 600–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Warrior and Attendants, by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Plaque with Warrior and Attendants

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Public domainThe Met
Artificial pink flowers from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artificial pink flowers from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey

Pyxis Depicting Standing Saints or Ecclesiastics and the Entry into Jerusalem with Christ Riding a Donkey

Artist not stated in the record · mid-to late13th century

Public domainThe Met
Hat box filled with tools and materials from Mae's Millinery Shop

Hat box filled with tools and materials from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Boxes with a Wrapping Cloth, by Kubo Shunman

Incense Boxes with a Wrapping Cloth

Kubo Shunman · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Antler

Antler

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Pigeon

Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Pigeon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
"Henry Clay" cigar box

"Henry Clay" cigar box

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin of Ahmose

Coffin of Ahmose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hare Hunt with Falcons, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Hare Hunt with Falcons

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1599

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Cherubim, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Cherubim

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Shofar from Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, by Unidentified

Shofar from Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation

Unidentified · 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Young Saint John the Baptist, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

The Young Saint John the Baptist

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1480–82

Public domainThe Met
A mounted man hunting birds with a falcon

A mounted man hunting birds with a falcon

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furniture plaque carved in relief with two falcon-headed sphinxes trampling captives

Furniture plaque carved in relief with two falcon-headed sphinxes trampling captives

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
in Aesthetic Style with Diagonal Opening, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

in Aesthetic Style with Diagonal Opening

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem Accompanying an Over Robe (Uchikake) with a Bamboo Painting by Gion Nankai, by Rai San’yō

Poem Accompanying an Over Robe (Uchikake) with a Bamboo Painting by Gion Nankai

Rai San’yō · 1824

Public domainThe Met
With Lion on Tambour-Style Opening

With Lion on Tambour-Style Opening

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar bowl, by Sébastien Igonet

Sugar bowl

Sébastien Igonet · 1753–54

Public domainThe Met
Falcon's hood

Falcon's hood

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Cairo 93"

"Cairo 93"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1893

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 · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484570 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 13:50 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.