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 a Grotesque Pendant” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:51 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 a Grotesque Pendant

Design for a Grotesque 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
Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

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
Watch and chatelaine

Watch and chatelaine

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Figure pendant

Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Plate from Omnia Conando Docilis Solertia Vincit (A Docile Disposition will Conquers all Difficulty), by Paul Birckenhultz, German, 1561 - 1639

Plate from Omnia Conando Docilis Solertia Vincit (A Docile Disposition will Conquers all Difficulty)

Paul Birckenhultz, German, 1561 - 1639 · Ca. 1600

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
Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Design for Grotesque Panel

Design for Grotesque Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prudence, by Etienne Delaune

Prudence

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

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque Design

Grotesque Design

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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
Frontispiece from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques), by Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664

Frontispiece from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques)

Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664 · ca. 1645

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze phallic amulet

Bronze phallic amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques, by Unknown

Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques

Unknown · early 16th century

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
Framed Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Framed Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

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. 809 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2095795 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 21:51 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.