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. 22 shown for “Gold strap necklace with seedlike pendants” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 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 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, 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 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of jewelry

Set of jewelry

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

Public domainThe Met
necklace

necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Gold strap necklace with beechnut pendants

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Necklace with Pendants

Gold Necklace with Pendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th century

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

Necklace

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

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

Gold strap necklace with beechnut pendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold necklace with inlaid amber

Gold necklace with inlaid amber

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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
Micro-mosaic

Micro-mosaic

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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

Pair of gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Necklace and Four Earrings

Designs for a Necklace and Four Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · early 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
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendants and beads

Pendants and beads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th–17th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pearl and gold necklace with pendant of Eros

Pearl and gold necklace with pendant of Eros

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

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. 210 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. 281153 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:14 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.