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. 23 shown for “Pendant in the Form of Neptune and a Sea Monster” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 10:33 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.
Pendant in the Form of Neptune and a Sea Monster

Pendant in the Form of Neptune and a Sea Monster

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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
Andromeda and the Sea Monster, by Domenico Guidi

Andromeda and the Sea Monster

Domenico Guidi · 1694

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
Terracotta vase in the form of a ketos (sea monster)

Terracotta vase in the form of a ketos (sea monster)

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 7th century BCE

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
Sea monster, by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

Sea monster

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · ca. 1500–1510

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
Pendant, by Central Region artist(s)

Pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 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
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

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
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

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
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Pitcher with a Figure of Neptune, from "Insignae Ac Planè Novum Opis Cratero Graphicum (A New Artistic Work, Eminent and Clear, On the Vessel)

Pitcher with a Figure of Neptune, from "Insignae Ac Planè Novum Opis Cratero Graphicum (A New Artistic Work, Eminent and Clear, On the Vessel)

Artist not stated in the record · 1551

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581

Title Page

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone pediment fragment

Limestone pediment fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

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
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
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
Design for escutcheon pendant

Design for escutcheon pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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. 1484 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 7484054 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-30 10:33 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.