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 “Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:33 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.
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Emperor Napoleon III

Emperor Napoleon III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child Entrhoned, with the Holy Spirit, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Virgin and Child Entrhoned, with the Holy Spirit

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Oil lantern used by oysterman Ira Wright, by R. E. Deitz Company, American, founded 1840

Oil lantern used by oysterman Ira Wright

R. E. Deitz Company, American, founded 1840 · ca. 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Cornet owned by Maxine Sullivan

Cornet owned by Maxine Sullivan

Artist not stated in the record · 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
A Couple Seated on a Bed

A Couple Seated on a Bed

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate 4, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 4, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate 6, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 6, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate 5, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 5, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Plaque Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate 8, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 8, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design with the Virtue Hope, Plate 3, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Pendant Design with the Virtue Hope, Plate 3, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk, by Nina de Garis Davies

Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk

Nina de Garis Davies · 1914; original ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document Sealing with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Document Sealing with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

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. 1009 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. 7473568 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-27 09:33 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.