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 “Cartouche of Akhenaten” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:33 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.
Cartouche of Akhenaten

Cartouche of Akhenaten

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
Block fragment with cartouche of Akhenaten

Block fragment with cartouche 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
Fragment of cartouche of Akhenaten

Fragment of cartouche 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
Fragment with the cartouche of Akhenaten

Fragment with the cartouche of Akhenaten

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
Fragment with the cartouche of Akhenaten

Fragment with the cartouche of Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Title Page, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Title Page

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element with cartouche of Akhenaten and of Aten on opposite sides

Element with cartouche of Akhenaten and of Aten on opposite sides

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
Element with part of cartouche and titulary of Akhenaten

Element with part of cartouche and titulary of Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809

Cartouche Design

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tablet with cartouches of Aten, Akhenaten and Nefertiti

Tablet with cartouches of Aten, Akhenaten and Nefertiti

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
Bottle

Bottle

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche with Cupid, a Horse and Spears from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez", by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Design for Cartouche with Cupid, a Horse and Spears from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with cartouches of Akhenaten and the Aten and the name of Kiya

Relief with cartouches of Akhenaten and the Aten and the name of Kiya

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

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche decoré, by Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775

Cartouche decoré

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

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 · ca. 1900

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. 2480 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2858766 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 20:33 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.