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. 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

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.
Masked Figure Pendant

Masked Figure Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design, by Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581

Pendant Design

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Masked Figure Pendant

Masked Figure Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate 14, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 14, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

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

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

Bird pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Plate 17, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 17, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Masked Figure Pendant

Masked Figure Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Masked Figure Pendant

Masked Figure Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate 20, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 20, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Masked Figure Pendant

Masked Figure Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Masked Figure Pendant

Masked Figure Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for pendant with masks and woman

Design for pendant with masks and woman

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Masked Figure Pendant

Masked Figure Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Figure pendant, by Tairona artist(s)

Figure pendant

Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Mummy Mask of a Woman

Mummy Mask of a Woman

Artist not stated in the record · 60–70 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant, by Maya artist(s)

Pendant

Maya artist(s) · 600–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 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.