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 Pendant” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:42 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

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 a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, by Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s)

Pendant

Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s) · 1300–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, by Central Region artist(s)

Pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, by Maya artist(s)

Pendant

Maya artist(s) · 600–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pendant, by Eugène-Samuel Grasset

Design for a Pendant

Eugène-Samuel Grasset

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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. 23436 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. 2095614 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 2026-09-02 22:42 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.