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 “Arm, empty cartouches” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:10 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.
Arm, empty cartouches

Arm, empty cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez", by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Design for Cartouche from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 610–595 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez", by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Design for Cartouche from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper right arm, bent, Aten cartouches

Upper right arm, bent, Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche, from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez", by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Design for Cartouche, from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm, outside shoulder, Aten cartouches

Arm, outside shoulder, Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Projet du Sallon de la Princesse Sartorinski en Pologne (Project for the Salon of the Princess Czartoryski in Poland), plate 84, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet du Sallon de la Princesse Sartorinski en Pologne (Project for the Salon of the Princess Czartoryski in Poland), plate 84, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1695–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm, outside shoulder with Aten cartouche

Arm, outside shoulder with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Decorated with a Helmet and a Mask, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Cartouche Decorated with a Helmet and a Mask

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm, left shoulder with Aten cartouche

Arm, left shoulder with Aten cartouche

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

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

Two Cartouche Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm, with garment, Aten cartouche

Arm, with garment, Aten cartouche

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

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

Four Cartouche Designs

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm with Aten cartouches

Arm with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, Before Lettering, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Title Page, Before Lettering

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
right arm with Aten cartouches

right arm with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez", by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm with Aten cartouches

Arm with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Four Tailpiece Designs, by Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788

Four Tailpiece Designs

Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm at wrist with Aten cartouches

Arm at wrist with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
DESCRIPTION DES FÊTES DONNÉES PAR LA VILLE DE STRASBOURG Pour la Convalescence du Roi : à l’arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette Ville., by Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751

DESCRIPTION DES FÊTES DONNÉES PAR LA VILLE DE STRASBOURG Pour la Convalescence du Roi : à l’arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette Ville.

Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm at wrist, Aten cartouches

Arm at wrist, Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche Evoking Death, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for Cartouche Evoking Death

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

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. 376 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. 81983 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-29 07:10 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.