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 “The Falcon's Bath” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:55 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.
The Falcon's Bath

The Falcon's Bath

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1415

Public domainThe Met
Falco sparverius

Falco sparverius

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath), by Camille Corot

Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)

Camille Corot · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Bathroom and Boudoir Interior, by Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823

Bathroom and Boudoir Interior

Jean-Claude Rumeau, French, active 1806 - 1823 · 1807

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 Children's Bath, by Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503

The Children's Bath

Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · before 1500

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
Tís-se-wóo-na-tís, She Who Bathes Her Knees, Wife of the Chief, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Tís-se-wóo-na-tís, She Who Bathes Her Knees, Wife of the Chief

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Getting out of the Bath, by Edgar Degas

Woman Getting out of the Bath

Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1890 or later, cast 1920

Public domainThe Met
Four Bath Designs, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Four Bath Designs

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1849–66

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
Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad Owney tag

Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Falcon's Bath

The Falcon's Bath

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1415

Public domainThe Met
The Falcon's Bath

The Falcon's Bath

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1415

Public domainThe Met
Bathsheba at Her Bath, by Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari

Bathsheba at Her Bath

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Head of an anthropomorphic falcon god

Head of an anthropomorphic falcon god

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Belt slide with a falcon attacking a swan

Belt slide with a falcon attacking a swan

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Étui, by Robert Sayer

Étui

Robert Sayer · ca. 1765–70

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. 1829 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1194773 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 2026-09-05 10:55 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.