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 “Back pillar of Torso with titles and cartouche of Akhenaten” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:37 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.
Back pillar of Torso with titles and cartouche of Akhenaten

Back pillar of Torso with titles and cartouche of Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Back pillar of Torso with Aten cartouches

Back pillar of Torso with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1870–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of Akhenaten

Torso of Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of an official of Nectanebo I

Torso of an official of Nectanebo I

Artist not stated in the record · 380–362 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche with Dragon, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Cartouche with Dragon

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Akhenaten with back pillar inscribed with Aten names

Head of Akhenaten with back pillar inscribed with Aten names

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

Public domainThe Met
Two Ornament Designs, by Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679

Two Ornament Designs

Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679 · ca.1660–1713

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche

Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - fragment

Sidewall - fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Back pillar (?), Aten cartouches

Back pillar (?), Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
ECUELLE ET GOBELETS, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

ECUELLE ET GOBELETS

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a (back?) pillar or stela with the first cartouche of the Aten

Part of a (back?) pillar or stela with the first cartouche of the Aten

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

Public domainThe Met
Folding Spoon with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Folding Spoon with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso/belt of the king with Aten cartouches

Torso/belt of the king with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Panel Design, by Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679

Ornament Panel Design

Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679 · 1660–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches

Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Two Arabesque Panel Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Two Arabesque Panel Designs

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti of Akhenaten

Shabti of Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Title Page

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Tea or Sugar Caddies, by William Cripps, English, 1715 – 1766

Pair of Tea or Sugar Caddies

William Cripps, English, 1715 – 1766 · 1752

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. 176 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. 7484660 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 20:37 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.