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 “Reconstruction of a Cartouche of Amenhotep III” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Reconstruction of a Cartouche of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

George III silver sugar sifter ladle
Artist not stated in the record · 1815

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

George III silver tea caddy
Artist not stated in the record · 1805

Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk
Nina de Garis Davies · 1914; original ca. 1386–1347 BCE

George III sterling silver coffee pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Design for Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1762

Ceiling painting from the palace of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Sphinx of Amenhotep III, possibly from a Model of a Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Design for the Frame of the Portrait of Charles III, King of Spain
Johann Esaias Nilson, German, 1721 - 1788 · 1759

Cartouche of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

George III silver sugar tongs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Cartouche of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Palace Façade with Cartouche
Giovanni Battista Natali III, Italian, 1698 - 1765 · mid- 18th century

Sealing from a Jar with the Name of a king Amenhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Sampler
Brunnell · 1795

Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III, reworked, reinscribed by Merneptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Titlepage and Cartouche Designs
Juan Dolívar, Spanish, active in France, 1641–1692 · ca.1690

Reconstruction of a Cavetto Cornice
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Scarab Inscribed for Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Designs for Cartouches
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761
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. 772 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. 3856452 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 06:24 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.