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. 12 shown for “Forearm against support with Aten cartouche” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:51 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Forearm against support with Aten cartouche

Forearm against support with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Forearm with Aten cartouche

Forearm with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Forearm with Aten cartouche

Forearm with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Right forearm with Aten cartouche

Right forearm with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Left forearm with Aten cartouche

Left forearm with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Right forearm with Aten cartouches

Right forearm with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Left forearm with Aten cartouche

Left forearm with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Forearm with pleated garment, Aten cartouches

Forearm with pleated garment, Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Inscribed pillar and support area against body

Inscribed pillar and support area against body

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

Public domainThe Met
Forearm from a bent royal arm crossing the front profile of figure's body and the rear profile of a second figure, arm marked with Aten cartouches, supported by the hand of an Aten ray

Forearm from a bent royal arm crossing the front profile of figure's body and the rear profile of a second figure, arm marked with Aten cartouches, supported by the hand of an Aten ray

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

Public domainThe Met
Left forearm with garment fringe, pleating and Aten cartouche

Left forearm with garment fringe, pleating and Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 37 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:51 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.