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 three pendants” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:16 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 mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for three pendants

Design for three pendants

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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 three pendants

Design for three pendants

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Prudence

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for three pendants with diamonds

Design for three pendants with diamonds

Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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 Three Pendants with Rinceaux

Design for Three Pendants with Rinceaux

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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
Designs for Three Pendants

Designs for Three Pendants

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

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
Designs for Three Pendants

Designs for Three Pendants

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

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

Figure pendant

Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lampes, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Lampes

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Plate 18, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 18, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with a Pelican in Her Piety

Pendant with a Pelican in Her Piety

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 17th century

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
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
Two Pendant Designs, by Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581

Two Pendant Designs

Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581 · 1581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant brooch in the form of a Gothic Cross, by Carlo Giuliano

Pendant brooch in the form of a Gothic Cross

Carlo Giuliano · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with a Youth Playing a Lyre and Riding an Elephant

Pendant with a Youth Playing a Lyre and Riding an Elephant

Artist not stated in the record · probably second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Cross Pendants

Designs for Two Cross Pendants

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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. 3785 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 509206 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 20:16 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.