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 “Fragmentary relief plaque with falcon” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 23:37 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.

Fragmentary relief plaque with falcon

Fragmentary relief plaque with falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief plaque with Wadjet and Nekhbet, the "Two Ladies"; falcon on opposite

Relief plaque with Wadjet and Nekhbet, the "Two Ladies"; falcon on opposite

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta funerary plaque

Fragment of a terracotta funerary plaque

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oblong Plaque Depicting Ramesses II Smiting Enemies, opposite side relief scene of Isis and Nephthys flanking falcon labeled Horus son of Isis

Oblong Plaque Depicting Ramesses II Smiting Enemies, opposite side relief scene of Isis and Nephthys flanking falcon labeled Horus son of Isis

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panel with Hunting Scenes

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Relief plaque with male figure on one side and a bird on the other

Relief plaque with male figure on one side and a bird on the other

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta relief

Fragment of a terracotta relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary Relief

Fragmentary Relief

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Openwork furniture plaque with a falcon-headed figure in a papyrus thicket

Openwork furniture plaque with a falcon-headed figure in a papyrus thicket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Furniture plaque carved in relief with a winged, falcon-headed sphinx

Furniture plaque carved in relief with a winged, falcon-headed sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

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. 64 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 2026-08-30 23:37 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.