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 Three Pendants with Rinceaux” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià
Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Design for Three Pendants with Rinceaux
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature
Reinhold Vasters · ca. 1870–95

Design for a Grotesque Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Prudence
Etienne Delaune · ca. 1550–60, back: 19th century

Watch and chatelaine
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pendant with Charity and Her Children
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Lampe
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

The Sacrifice of Isaac
Reinhold Vasters · probably second half 19th century

Lampe
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Design for Two Pendants with Caryatides and Dolphins
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Designs for Three Armchairs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

Pendant with a Pelican in Her Piety
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 17th century

Design for a Three-Tiered Sweetmeat and Stand
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827-1835

Pendant in the form of a mermaid
Reinhold Vasters · ca. 1870–95

Design for a Frieze
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1770

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

VASES
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Designs for Liturgical Objects
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Girandole (Candelabra) Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94
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. 3451 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. 649812 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 2026-09-06 20:17 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.