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. 22 shown for “Animal Pendant” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:36 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Animal pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England
Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1618

Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–5th century

Sir Thomas More
Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1600-1620

Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–10th century

Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647 · 1616

Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 100–500 CE

Prince John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Richmond, Duke D'Aquitaine
George Yate, active c. 1617 - 1622 · 1618

Double-End Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–8th century

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Pendant
Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s) · 1300–1521 CE

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

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Edward (The Black Prince), Prince of Aquitaine, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester
Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1618

Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–10th century

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616 · 1616–1623

Figure pendant
Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham
Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647 · 1618-20
Stone Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–15th century

Pendant in the form of a tiger
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250-ca. 1050 BCE
Stone Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–15th century
Stone Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–15th century
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. 313 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1155883 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:36 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.