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 “Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:22 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.
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
Fragment of an inlay

Fragment of an inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon

Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Custom Mapex hanging 16-inch tom drum owned by Will Calhoun

Custom Mapex hanging 16-inch tom drum owned by Will Calhoun

Artist not stated in the record · 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature collector's cabinet, by Bernard Salomon

Miniature collector's cabinet

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba, by Bairiuken Kiyonaga, Japanese

Tsuba

Bairiuken Kiyonaga, Japanese · 1830–43

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
Bass guitar used by Robert "Kool" Bell of Kool & the Gang

Bass guitar used by Robert "Kool" Bell of Kool & the Gang

Artist not stated in the record · 1976-1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories, by Samuel Colt

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories

Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba, by Kawaji Tomotomi, Japanese, 1754

Tsuba

Kawaji Tomotomi, Japanese, 1754 · early 18th century

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
Portable desk

Portable desk

Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Linchpin on the form of a figure and dragon head

Linchpin on the form of a figure and dragon head

Artist not stated in the record · 122-125

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Wheellock Pistols with Matching Priming Flask/Spanner, by Etienne Delaune

Pair of Wheellock Pistols with Matching Priming Flask/Spanner

Etienne Delaune · ca. 1570–80

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba, by Isobe Isshu, Japanese

Tsuba

Isobe Isshu, Japanese · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II

Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mirror with dragons

Mirror with dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Isis with the infant Horus

Statuette of Isis with the infant Horus

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Folding Spoon (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

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
Folding Knife (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Folding Knife (Part of Traveling Cutlery Set)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

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
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. 553 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. 3138108 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:22 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.