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 pendant cross with square diamonds” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cross
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Design for pendant cross with square diamonds
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

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

Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)

Design for Pendant with Half Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Three Pendants
Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · ca. 1870

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

Design for pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Designs for Three Pendants
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Processional Cross
Northern Highlands artist · 14th–15th century

Design for a Cross Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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

Design for a Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play
Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Design for pendant with gaines
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Crucifix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Design for pendant with dolphins
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Gold Necklace with Ornaments
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Project for a Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

"Ornamental Design with Cross at Center," Plate 2 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"
Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648
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. 347 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 664329 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 17:02 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.