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 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

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.
Cross

Cross

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for pendant cross with square diamonds

Design for pendant cross with square diamonds

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Pendants with Diamonds and Pearls

Design for Two Pendants with Diamonds and Pearls

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua, by Kongo artist

Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua

Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)

Public domainThe Met
Design for Pendant with Half Figures

Design for Pendant with Half Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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
Three Pendants, by Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century

Three Pendants

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

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

Prudence

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for pendant

Design for pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869), by Samuel Jackson

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)

Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Pendants

Designs for Three Pendants

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross, by Northern Highlands artist

Processional Cross

Northern Highlands artist · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cross Pendant

Design for a Cross Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with Charity and Her Children

Pendant with Charity and Her Children

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play, by Jean Georges (or George)

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play

Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
Design for pendant with gaines

Design for pendant with gaines

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix

Crucifix

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for pendant with dolphins

Design for pendant with dolphins

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Necklace with Ornaments

Gold Necklace with Ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Pendant

Project for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
"Ornamental Design with Cross at Center," Plate 2 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Ornamental Design with Cross at Center," Plate 2 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

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. 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.