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. 18 shown for “Isis nursing Horus” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:58 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.
Isis nursing Horus

Isis nursing Horus

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
Isis nursing Horus

Isis nursing Horus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apus horus

Apus horus

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isis nursing Horus

Isis nursing Horus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apus horus

Apus horus

Artist not stated in the record · 3 May 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isis nursing Horus

Isis nursing Horus

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apus horus

Apus horus

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of Isis nursing Horus

Figure of Isis nursing Horus

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Apus horus

Apus horus

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of Isis nursing Horus

Figure of Isis nursing Horus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Isis, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Isis

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Isis nursing Horus

Statuette of Isis nursing Horus

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Upper part of a figure of Isis nursing Horus

Upper part of a figure of Isis nursing Horus

Artist not stated in the record · 4th to 3rd Century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Upper part of a figure of Isis nursing Horus

Upper part of a figure of Isis nursing Horus

Artist not stated in the record · 4th to 3rd Century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Isis nursing Horus on throne supported by striding lions

Isis nursing Horus on throne supported by striding lions

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Statuette of Isis nursing Horus (missing above the legs), inscribed for Hor son of Padihorresnet

Statuette of Isis nursing Horus (missing above the legs), inscribed for Hor son of Padihorresnet

Artist not stated in the record · 610–595 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii

Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 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. 140 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. 1558 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 19:58 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.