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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Back pillar of Torso with titles and cartouche of Akhenaten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1810

Back pillar of Torso with Aten cartouches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1870–90

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

Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Torso of an official of Nectanebo I
Artist not stated in the record · 380–362 BCE

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

Head of Akhenaten with back pillar inscribed with Aten names
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

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

Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Sidewall - fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–70

Back pillar (?), Aten cartouches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

ECUELLE ET GOBELETS
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Part of a (back?) pillar or stela with the first cartouche of the Aten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Folding Spoon with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Torso/belt of the king with Aten cartouches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

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

Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Two Arabesque Panel Designs
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

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

Title Page
Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

Scarab Inscribed "Hatshepsut, United with Amun"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Pair of Tea or Sugar Caddies
William Cripps, English, 1715 – 1766 · 1752
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.