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. 24 shown for “Akhenaten chest with Aten cartouches” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:38 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.
Akhenaten chest with Aten cartouches

Akhenaten chest with Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
page Four from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier", by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

page Four from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier"

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left chest of Akhenaten prostrate with Aten cartouches

Left chest of Akhenaten prostrate with Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Furniture, by André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732

Designs for Furniture

André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732 · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right chest of Akhenaten prostrate, with Aten cartouches

Right chest of Akhenaten prostrate, with Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right chest of Akhenaten prostrate with Aten cartouches

Right chest of Akhenaten prostrate with Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
ANIS

ANIS

Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of Akhenaten

Torso of Akhenaten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Cartouches, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Cartouches

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest (?) fragment with Aten cartouches

Chest (?) fragment with Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hampton Aten & Co. Commission Merchants, by unknown

Hampton Aten & Co. Commission Merchants

unknown · 1859 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest in garment with Aten cartouches

Chest in garment with Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Cartouches, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Cartouches

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest fragment with Aten cartouche

Chest fragment with Aten cartouche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Cartouches, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Cartouches

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest of king with Aten cartouches

Chest of king with Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Cartouches, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Cartouches

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right shoulder and chest with Aten cartouches

Right shoulder and chest with Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Titlepage and Cartouche Designs, by Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692

Titlepage and Cartouche Designs

Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · ca.1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest fragment with traces of Aten cartouches

Chest fragment with traces of Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
relief (?) chest with pleats and Aten cartouches

relief (?) chest with pleats and Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Designs, by Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782

Cartouche Designs

Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782 · 1759

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. 97 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. 249398 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-28 20:38 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.