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 with gaines” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:40 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.
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

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
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design with the Virtue Hope, Plate 3, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Pendant Design with the Virtue Hope, Plate 3, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure pendant, by Tairona artist(s)

Figure pendant

Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616 · 1616–1623

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 Caryatides and Dolphins

Design for Two Pendants with Caryatides and Dolphins

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Plate 6, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 6, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Plate 5, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 5, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815)

Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate 8, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 8, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

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
Plate 4, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 4, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

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
Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

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
Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723

Design for a Pendant Trophy

René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1738–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature, by Reinhold Vasters

Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature

Reinhold Vasters · ca. 1870–95

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723

Design for a Pendant Trophy

René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1738–61

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. 777 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 643334 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 18:40 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.