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. 13 shown for “Relief of Queen Nefertiti” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:51 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.
Relief of Queen Nefertiti

Relief of Queen Nefertiti

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pedestal and a Bowl, Intended for Execution in White and Rose Marbles for Marie Antoinette at St. Cloud, by Unknown

Design for a Pedestal and a Bowl, Intended for Execution in White and Rose Marbles for Marie Antoinette at St. Cloud

Unknown · 1780–1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief of Queen Nefertiti

Relief of Queen Nefertiti

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Fragment of a Queen's Face

Fragment of a Queen's Face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief showing the Aten interacting with the queen

Relief showing the Aten interacting with the queen

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

Public domainThe Met
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of Akhenaten or Nefertiti

Head of Akhenaten or Nefertiti

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

Public domainThe Met
Two bowing courtiers behind Nefertiti

Two bowing courtiers behind Nefertiti

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Ear from a statue of king or queen

Ear from a statue of king or queen

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

Public domainThe Met
Lips from a statue of king or queen

Lips from a statue of king or queen

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

Public domainThe Met
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

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. 332 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2862280 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 02:51 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.