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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 “Element with names of Nefertiti and Ankhesenpaaten” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:29 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.
Element with names of Nefertiti and Ankhesenpaaten

Element with names of Nefertiti and Ankhesenpaaten

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

Public domainThe Met
chatelaine, by G. Parvis

chatelaine

G. Parvis · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet Inscribed with the Names of King Amenhotep IV and Queen Nefertiti

Goblet Inscribed with the Names of King Amenhotep IV and Queen Nefertiti

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

Public domainThe Met
Medallion Decoration, by George W. Shiebler & Co., American, 1876 - 1910

Medallion Decoration

George W. Shiebler & Co., American, 1876 - 1910 · 1885–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element with name of Nefertiti and a princess

Element with name of Nefertiti and a princess

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

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-sided curved element with names of Akhenaten and Nefertiti on both sides

Two-sided curved element with names of Akhenaten and Nefertiti on both sides

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs of Architectural Elements, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs of Architectural Elements

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element with the cartouche of Nefertiti

Element with the cartouche of Nefertiti

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

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Setting in Landscape with Classical and Chinoiserie Elements, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Rocaille Setting in Landscape with Classical and Chinoiserie Elements

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Plate 1, The Lady's Magazine, Second Series, Vol. 3

Plate 1, The Lady's Magazine, Second Series, Vol. 3

Artist not stated in the record · January 1822

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed and decorated fragments of a connective element, Nefertiti names

Inscribed and decorated fragments of a connective element, Nefertiti names

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

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Decorated with Elements of Fire, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Cartouche Decorated with Elements of Fire

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a small block with name of Nefertiti and another on adjacent sides

Part of a small block with name of Nefertiti and another on adjacent sides

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

Public domainThe Met
Album of Trophies Representing the Four Elements, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Album of Trophies Representing the Four Elements

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1758–64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element with names of Akhenaten and Meketaten

Element with names of Akhenaten and Meketaten

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

Public domainThe Met
No. 8, by Gebrüder Thonet, Austrian, founded 1853

No. 8

Gebrüder Thonet, Austrian, founded 1853 · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Element with the names of Akhenaten and Meketaten

Element with the names of Akhenaten and Meketaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Bootsy Collins Space Bass guitar owned by Bootsy Collins

Bootsy Collins Space Bass guitar owned by Bootsy Collins

Artist not stated in the record · July 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a small block with names of the Aten preserved on opposite sides and names of Akhenaten and Nefertiti on one preserved end

Part of a small block with names of the Aten preserved on opposite sides and names of Akhenaten and Nefertiti on one preserved end

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

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Interior Elements; Verso: Anatomical Studies, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Architectural Interior Elements; Verso: Anatomical Studies

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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. 816 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. 7474373 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 23:29 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.