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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 “Left chest of Akhenaten prostrate with Aten cartouches” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:37 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.
Left chest of Akhenaten prostrate with Aten cartouches

Left chest of Akhenaten prostrate with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
page Four from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier", by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

page Four 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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right chest of Akhenaten prostrate with Aten cartouches

Right chest of Akhenaten prostrate with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right chest of Akhenaten prostrate, with Aten cartouches

Right chest of Akhenaten prostrate, with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Akhenaten chest with Aten cartouches

Akhenaten chest with Aten cartouches

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
Left shoulder and chest with cartouches of Aten

Left shoulder and chest with cartouches of Aten

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

Public domainThe Met
page Three from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier", by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt with Aten cartouche from Akhenaten prostrate (?)

Belt with Aten cartouche from Akhenaten prostrate (?)

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Design for a Cartouche

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt with Aten cartouche from Akhenaten prostrate (?)

Belt with Aten cartouche from Akhenaten prostrate (?)

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Ornament, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Torso of Akhenaten

Torso of Akhenaten

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Ornament, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest (?) fragment with Aten cartouches

Chest (?) fragment with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Table Design with Vases, by Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716

Table Design with Vases

Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest in garment with Aten cartouches

Chest in garment with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Ornament, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest fragment with Aten cartouche

Chest fragment with Aten cartouche

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
Chest of king with Aten cartouches

Chest of king with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

Title Page

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1741

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. 33 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. 2896119 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 20:37 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.