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. 15 shown for “Anthropomorphic Animal Pendant” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 04:24 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.
Anthropomorphic Animal Pendant

Anthropomorphic Animal Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird pendant, by Central Region artist(s)

Bird pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

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
Pendant, by Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s)

Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Animal pendant

Animal pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Anthropomorphic Pendant

Anthropomorphic Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Anthropomorphic Pendant

Anthropomorphic Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Anthropomorphic Pendant

Anthropomorphic Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Figure pendant, by Tairona artist(s)

Figure pendant

Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Double-End Animal Pendant

Double-End Animal Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 100–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–5th century

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. 534 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1156062 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 04:24 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.