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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Anthropomorphic Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–10th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

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

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

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

Pin holder
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Bird pendant
Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

mask
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

The Holy Trinity
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1511

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

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

Anthropomorphic head pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Deer-head pendant
Chiriquí artist(s) · 700–1550 CE

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

Animal pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Figure pendant
Greater Chiriquí artist · 700–1550 CE
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.