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 “Left forearm with garment fringe, pleating and Aten cartouche” — 57 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:34 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 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
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limb with garment fringe, pleating

Limb with garment fringe, pleating

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment and shawl fringe, pleating

Body with garment and shawl fringe, pleating

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1778–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left forearm with Aten cartouche

Left forearm with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Vénus ou La Coquetterie, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Vénus ou La Coquetterie

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left forearm with Aten cartouche

Left forearm with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right shoulder slice with shawl traces and Aten cartouche

Right shoulder slice with shawl traces and Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Breast (?) with pleating and shawl fringe

Breast (?) with pleating and shawl fringe

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bent right forearm with garment pleats

Bent right forearm with garment pleats

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
relief (?) chest with pleats and Aten cartouches

relief (?) chest with pleats and Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Overdoors: Kneeling Saint

Overdoors: Kneeling Saint

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Body with garment, shawl pleating, fringe

Body with garment, shawl pleating, fringe

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upper right chest of queen in pleated garment and elaborate broad collar, with cartouches of the Aten

Upper right chest of queen in pleated garment and elaborate broad collar, with cartouches of the Aten

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th 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. 17 matched · 17 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. 1554602 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 19:34 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.