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 “Scarab with Representation of a Falcon” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 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.
Scarab with Representation of a Falcon

Scarab with Representation of a Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 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
Scarab with the Representation of a Falcon and Hieroglyphs

Scarab with the Representation of a Falcon and Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1600 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age IIB)

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
Falcon

Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Falcon

Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1220

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
Falcon

Falcon

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Hunt Scene

A Hunt Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mortar and Pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi

Mortar and Pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Falcon's hood

Falcon's hood

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab

Scarab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

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

Bird Hunt with Falcons

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Bird Hunting

Bird Hunting

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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
Cravat end

Cravat end

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon statue serving as a sarcophagus for a sacred animal

Falcon statue serving as a sarcophagus for a sacred animal

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
Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Vase

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1909–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Purse with Egyptian ornament, by Sloan & Company

Purse with Egyptian ornament

Sloan & Company · ca. 1880

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. 3852 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 3887206 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 04:24 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.