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. 18 shown for “Earrings and Pendant” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 05:34 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.
Earrings and Pendant

Earrings and Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of earrings

Pair of earrings

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of gold earrings with disk and pendant clustered spheres

Pair of gold earrings with disk and pendant clustered spheres

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Parure with Rubies and Pearls

Design for a Parure with Rubies and Pearls

Artist not stated in the record · Possibly 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
Personification of Europe, by Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757

Personification of Europe

Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757 · before 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with disc and pendant

Gold earring with disc and pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Personification of Africa, by Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757

Personification of Africa

Rosalba Carriera, Italian, 1673–1757 · before 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Turbaned Youth

Head of a Turbaned Youth

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with disc and pendant

Gold earring with disc and pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Jewelry and Ornament Designs, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Jewelry and Ornament Designs

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Electrum earring in the form of a double hook

Electrum earring in the form of a double hook

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of earrings

Pair of earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold earring with lotus flower pendant

Gold earring with lotus flower pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Earrings

Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird pendant, by Central Region artist(s)

Bird pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Gold Earring

Gold Earring

Artist not stated in the record · 400–500

Public domainThe Met
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. 4920 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. 1592697 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 05:34 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.