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. 22 shown for “Horus falcon figure” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:54 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.
Horus falcon figure

Horus falcon figure

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Puzza tenant son fils Horus Divinitéz qui préside aux grains et fruits Chez les Chinois, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Puzza tenant son fils Horus Divinitéz qui préside aux grains et fruits Chez les Chinois

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon

Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apus horus

Apus horus

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kohl jar decorated wtih Horus falcon and grotesque figure

Kohl jar decorated wtih Horus falcon and grotesque figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Hunt Scene

A Hunt Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"

Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Striding Soldier, by Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656

Striding Soldier

Aniello Falcone, Italian, 1607 - 1656 · 1620–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings

Inlay Depicting a Falcon with Spread Wings

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay in the form of the Horus falcon

Inlay in the form of the Horus falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Aniello Falcone, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1607-died Naples, Italy 1656

Drawing

Aniello Falcone, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1607-died Naples, Italy 1656 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlay in the form of the Horus falcon

Inlay in the form of the Horus falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century 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
Inlay depicting a falcon

Inlay depicting a falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cravat end

Cravat end

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Goose and Duck Hunt with Falcons [above right]; Goose Hunt [below right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596-99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horus falcon in double crown

Horus falcon in double crown

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Hunt, Personified by Diana, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Hunt, Personified by Diana

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1594–1596

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horus falcon

Horus falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 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. 445 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. 45388 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 00:54 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.