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. 12 shown for “Upper right arm, bent, Aten cartouches” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 04:39 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Upper right arm, bent, Aten cartouches

Upper right arm, bent, Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
right upper arm with Aten cartouches

right upper arm with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Upper right arm possibly with Aten cartouches

Upper right arm possibly with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
right arm with Aten cartouches

right arm with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Right shoulder with Aten cartouche

Right shoulder with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Forearm from a bent royal arm crossing the front profile of figure's body and the rear profile of a second figure, arm marked with Aten cartouches, supported by the hand of an Aten ray

Forearm from a bent royal arm crossing the front profile of figure's body and the rear profile of a second figure, arm marked with Aten cartouches, supported by the hand of an Aten ray

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

Public domainThe Met
Upper left arm with Aten cartouches

Upper left arm with Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Statuette of a Royal (?) Woman with the Cartouches of Necho II on her Arms

Artist not stated in the record · 610–595 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arm, outside shoulder, Aten cartouches

Arm, outside shoulder, Aten cartouches

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Arm, left shoulder with Aten cartouche

Arm, left shoulder with Aten cartouche

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

Public domainThe Met
Arm, with garment, Aten cartouche

Arm, with garment, Aten cartouche

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

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. 388 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 04:39 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.