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. 24 shown for “Design for Palmette Pendant” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 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.
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Palmette Pendant

Design for Palmette Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Design for pendant with palmette

Design for pendant with palmette

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure pendant, by Tairona artist(s)

Figure pendant

Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Necklace and earring, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Design for a Necklace and earring

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Split-Leaf Palmette Design

Dish with Split-Leaf Palmette Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625–50

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl

Sugar Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta necklace with palmette and lotus pendants

Terracotta necklace with palmette and lotus pendants

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Earring

Design for an Earring

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta necklace with palmette and lotus pendants

Terracotta necklace with palmette and lotus pendants

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch with Palmette and Escutcheon

Design for Brooch with Palmette and Escutcheon

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Isaac, by Reinhold Vasters

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Reinhold Vasters · probably second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Necklace with Brazilian Beetles

Design for Necklace with Brazilian Beetles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant in the form of a mermaid, by Reinhold Vasters

Pendant in the form of a mermaid

Reinhold Vasters · ca. 1870–95

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815)

Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua, by Kongo artist

Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua

Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)

Public domainThe Met
Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 795 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 498403 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 19:21 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.