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. 19 shown for “Masked Figure Pendant” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Masked Figure Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE -- 700 CE

Pendant Design
Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581 · 1582

Masked Figure Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE -- 700 CE

Plate 14, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)
René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

Bird pendant
Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Plate 17, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)
René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

Masked Figure Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–7th century

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

Masked Figure Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

Plate 20, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)
René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

Masked Figure Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–8th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Masked Figure Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–8th century

Design for pendant with masks and woman
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Masked Figure Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–16th century

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

Mummy Mask of a Woman
Artist not stated in the record · 60–70 CE

Pendant
Maya artist(s) · 600–700 CE

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià
Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century
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. 1562 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. 48642 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 19:56 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.