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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

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

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

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

Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

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

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

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

Plate from Omnia Conando Docilis Solertia Vincit (A Docile Disposition will Conquers all Difficulty)
Paul Birckenhultz, German, 1561 - 1639 · Ca. 1600

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

Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Design for Grotesque Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1650

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

Grotesque Design
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià
Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Frontispiece from Frises, Feuillages et Grotesques (Friezes, Foliage and Grotesques)
Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664 · ca. 1645

Bronze phallic amulet
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques
Unknown · early 16th century

Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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