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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 “A modern pendant setting holding an inscribed scarab” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A modern pendant setting holding an inscribed scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Plate 6, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

Saint Ignatius Loyola with an angel holding a book
Francesco Bertos · ca. 1722

Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

"Modern Woodmen of America"
Artist not stated in the record · patented 1904

Modern Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

The Discovery of America, plate 1 from the "Nova Reperta" (New Inventions of Modern Times)
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Hummingbird heads
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of thirteen vertical panels
Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Four Drawings of the Myth of Apollo; Decoration of a Wall over a Mantel, Sala di Apollo, Palazzo Cavina, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1816

Broken Eggs
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1756

Vase After the Antique
Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

Scarab With an Image of the Gods Ptah and Sakhmet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

La Pesche
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1749-1761

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

Ancient Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

Design for a Monochrome Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy
Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729 · 1689–94
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. 112 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. 1796597 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 12:43 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.