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 “Head of Akhenaten with back pillar inscribed with Aten names” — 64 records examined, 3 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.
Head of Akhenaten with back pillar inscribed with Aten names

Head of Akhenaten with back pillar inscribed with Aten names

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

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a sailor named Jim

Carte-de-visite of a sailor named Jim

Artist not stated in the record · 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
Chairs, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Chairs

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1785–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche

Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Cattle, Irvington, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Sketches of Cattle, Irvington

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · September 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary Figure of Isis, Singer of the Aten

Funerary Figure of Isis, Singer of the Aten

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

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for "Tetley's Teas"

Advertisement for "Tetley's Teas"

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed side of back pillar from head of Akhenaten in blue crown

Inscribed side of back pillar from head of Akhenaten in blue crown

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

Public domainThe Met
Pedestal and base of a pillar in a church, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Pedestal and base of a pillar in a church

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pillar perhaps attached to statue, name of Akhenaten, epithets of Aten

Pillar perhaps attached to statue, name of Akhenaten, epithets of Aten

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

Public domainThe Met
Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Pair of Salvers, by Edward Barrett, Irish, active 1698 – 1722

Pair of Salvers

Edward Barrett, Irish, active 1698 – 1722 · 1708–09

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Back pillar of Torso with Aten cartouches

Back pillar of Torso with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Old Warrior

Old Warrior

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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
Portrait of Mlle. Delaporte

Portrait of Mlle. Delaporte

Artist not stated in the record · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)

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

Public domainThe Met
Gate in the wall of a park, with alternate suggestions, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Gate in the wall of a park, with alternate suggestions

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1792–1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of Akhenaten

Torso of Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Details and Figure Study, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Architectural Details and Figure Study

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a (back?) pillar or stela with the first cartouche of the Aten

Part of a (back?) pillar or stela with the first cartouche of the Aten

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

Public domainThe Met
Three capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions

Three capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

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. 230 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. 7473488 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 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.