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 “Right shoulder and chest with Aten cartouches” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:28 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.
Right shoulder and chest with Aten cartouches

Right shoulder and chest with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Folding Fork with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right shoulder with Aten cartouche

Right shoulder with Aten cartouche

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
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
Portrait of an Old Man with a Beard, with Naked Shoulders

Portrait of an Old Man with a Beard, with Naked Shoulders

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

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
Folding Spoon with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Folding Spoon with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

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
Red suit jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles, by Unidentified

Red suit jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles

Unidentified · Mid to late 20th century

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
Folding Knife with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Folding Knife with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

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
One of a Pair of Tea Caddies, by Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728

One of a Pair of Tea Caddies

Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716

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
White cotton voile pinafore dress with floral embroidery, by Unidentified

White cotton voile pinafore dress with floral embroidery

Unidentified · 1920s

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
Light gold boat neck dress with matching bolero, by Unidentified

Light gold boat neck dress with matching bolero

Unidentified · 1950s

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
Three Putti, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Three Putti

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1758–63

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
White cotton lace blouse with pintucks and embroidery, by Unidentified

White cotton lace blouse with pintucks and embroidery

Unidentified · ca.1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm, outside shoulder with Aten cartouche

Arm, outside shoulder with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Matching black velvet dress and jacket with gold basket brooch, by Unidentified

Matching black velvet dress and jacket with gold basket brooch

Unidentified · 1960s

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. 219 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. 1539970 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 23:28 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.