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-Shaped Inlay with the Name of Thutmose I” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cartouche-Shaped Inlay with the Name of Thutmose I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

jar
Artist not stated in the record · 18th Century

Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Stanley Clarke Signature Standard 4 String Bass
Artist not stated in the record · after 1990

Scarab with the Throne Name of Thutmose I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

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

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Cartouche Designs
Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782 · 1759

Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Interior Wall Elevation
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1696–1740

Cartouche-shaped plaque with the names of Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Heart Shaped Cartouche
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Bass guitar used by Robert "Kool" Bell of Kool & the Gang
Artist not stated in the record · 1976-1978

Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1595–1615

Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

George III silver sugar sifter ladle
Artist not stated in the record · 1815

Mud Brick Stamped with the Royal Names of Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

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

Mud Brick Stamped with the Throne Names Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

page Three from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier"
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751
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Plaque Bead with name of Amenhotep I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

EL ACID H
Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century
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. 197 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. 2220 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-04 23:24 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.