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 “Gold necklace with crescent-shaped pendant” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:34 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.
Gold necklace with crescent-shaped pendant

Gold necklace with crescent-shaped pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja), by Kaikei

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)

Kaikei · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
necklace

necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Figure pendant

Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Necklace

Design for a Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chain with Birds and Geometric Motifs

Chain with Birds and Geometric Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1200

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Necklaces and Two Chains

Designs for Two Necklaces and Two Chains

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

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
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · second half 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Lanyard worn by Baba Chuck

Lanyard worn by Baba Chuck

Artist not stated in the record · late 20th-early 21st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of jewelry

Set of jewelry

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · 1863–96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold strap necklace with seedlike pendants

Gold strap necklace with seedlike pendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by Pierre Vernede

Watch

Pierre Vernede · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Woman's Head in Exotic Headdress

Woman's Head in Exotic Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold necklace

Gold necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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. 229 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. 184 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-01 20:34 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.