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. 19 shown for “Amulet of Bes with tambourine” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:07 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.
Amulet of Bes with tambourine

Amulet of Bes with tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Boy with Broken Tambourine, by Thomas Crawford, born New York City 1813?-died London, England 1857

Boy with Broken Tambourine

Thomas Crawford, born New York City 1813?-died London, England 1857 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet of Bes with tambourine

Amulet of Bes with tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Three Putti with Tambourines and Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican, by Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822

Three Putti with Tambourines and Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822 · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet of Bes with tambourine

Amulet of Bes with tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study for Girl with Tambourine, “Vintage Festival”, Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Study for Girl with Tambourine, “Vintage Festival”, Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1895–1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet of Bes with tambourine

Amulet of Bes with tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Faun by a Monument, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Faun by a Monument

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet of Bes with a Tambourine

Amulet of Bes with a Tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
LES JARDINS DE BACHUS, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

LES JARDINS DE BACHUS

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mold for an Amulet of Bes with a Tambourine

Mold for an Amulet of Bes with a Tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace with amulet

Necklace with amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tambourine

Tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Male Monkey with tambourine

Male Monkey with tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet: Bes with tambourine

Amulet: Bes with tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amulet: Bes with tambourine

Amulet: Bes with tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amulet: Bes with tambourine

Amulet: Bes with tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bes Amulet

Bes Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mold: Bes with Tambourine

Mold: Bes with Tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 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. 254 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2894978 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:07 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.