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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

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

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

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

Figure pendant
Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

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

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

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

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Plate 6, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Plate 5, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Plate 8, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

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

Plate 4, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

The Sacrifice of Isaac
Reinhold Vasters · probably second half 19th century

Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

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

Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Design for a Pendant Trophy
René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1738–61

Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature
Reinhold Vasters · ca. 1870–95

Design for a Pendant Trophy
René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1738–61
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.