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. 17 shown for “Anthropomorphic Pendant” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 06:04 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 Pendant

Anthropomorphic Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthropomorphic Pendant

Anthropomorphic Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Design, by Johann Ladenspelder, German, 1515 - ca. 1580

Ornamental Design

Johann Ladenspelder, German, 1515 - ca. 1580 · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthropomorphic Pendant

Anthropomorphic Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Pin holder

Pin holder

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Bird pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
mask

mask

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Headless Anthropomorphic Pendant

Headless Anthropomorphic Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Trinity, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

The Holy Trinity

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthropomorphic figure pendant

Anthropomorphic figure pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Anthropomorphic Animal Pendant

Anthropomorphic Animal Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Anthropomorphic head pendant

Anthropomorphic head pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Deer-head pendant, by Chiriquí artist(s)

Deer-head pendant

Chiriquí artist(s) · 700–1550 CE

Public domainThe Met
Figure pendant, by International or Initial Style artist(s)

Figure pendant

International or Initial Style artist(s) · 400–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Animal pendant

Animal pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Figure pendant, by Greater Chiriquí artist

Figure pendant

Greater Chiriquí artist · 700–1550 CE

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. 115 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7275 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 06:04 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.