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 “Scarab with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 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.
Scarab with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Scarab with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Fifteen Sketches for a Throne, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Fifteen Sketches for a Throne

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1810

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

Scarab with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Throne of the Priest of Bacchus, after Ancient Marble

Design for a Throne of the Priest of Bacchus, after Ancient Marble

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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
Antique Chair with Bacchic Themes

Antique Chair with Bacchic Themes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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
Ornament Design with Figures, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

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
Design for a Marble Throne for the Statue of St. Peter, St. Peter's, Rome, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Design for a Marble Throne for the Statue of St. Peter, St. Peter's, Rome

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1754

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
Char de Ceres., by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de Ceres.

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

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

Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose III

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

Public domainThe Met
Fantastical Garden Ornament Design, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Fantastical Garden Ornament Design

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sealing from a Jar with the Name of a king Amenhotep

Sealing from a Jar with the Name of a king Amenhotep

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

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Vase

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1909–10

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
The Council in Hell. Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost" (after William Hogarth)

The Council in Hell. Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost" (after William Hogarth)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document Sealing

Document Sealing

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

Public domainThe Met
The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints; Study after Panetti or Costa, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints; Study after Panetti or Costa

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Amenhotep III

Scarab Inscribed for Amenhotep III

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

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin With the Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Virgin With the Child

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
Sketch, Figure in Classical Throne with Attributes of Christianity or War, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Sketch, Figure in Classical Throne with Attributes of Christianity or War

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

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. 571 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. 7473562 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 10:43 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.