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 with diamond and figures” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 07:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Design for pendant with diamond and figures
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Design for Brooch and Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

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

Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770

Design for Pendant with Laurel Branches
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Watch
F. L. Meybom · ca. 1670–75

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

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

Design for a Pendant in Shape of Niche
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Design for a Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–75

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

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

Pendant in the Form of Neptune and a Sea Monster
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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

Pocket watch
Robert Roskell · 1820–21

Design for Pendant with Oval Diamond
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Designs for a Necklace and Four Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Belt buckle
Carlo Giuliano · ca. 1900

Designs for Three Pendants
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century
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. 4930 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. 1582506 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 2026-08-30 07:52 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.