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 a fish” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 02:43 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 a fish

Pendant in the form of a fish

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower

Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant in the form of a fish

Pendant in the form of a fish

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant

Design for a Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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

Bird pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupids

Venus and Cupids

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
"Pendant in the Form of a Bowknot," Plate 3 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Pendant in the Form of a Bowknot," Plate 3 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Penca de Balangandã, by Unidentified

Penca de Balangandã

Unidentified · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Finial in the Form of a Parrot

Finial in the Form of a Parrot

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cross Pendant

Design for a Cross Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Chair

Chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Public domainThe Met
Brooch in the form of a pansy, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Brooch in the form of a pansy

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th 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
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th 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, by Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s)

Pendant

Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s) · 1300–1521 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
Pendant, by Central Region artist(s)

Pendant

Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

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. 20499 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. 7484762 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 02:43 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.