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 “Pendant with Daoist divinities” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:25 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 with Daoist divinities

Pendant with Daoist divinities

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Discussing the Dao in the shade of pines 松陰論道圖, by Follower of Yan Hui 顏輝 (late 13th-early 14th century)

Discussing the Dao in the shade of pines 松陰論道圖

Follower of Yan Hui 顏輝 (late 13th-early 14th century) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, by Maya artist(s)

Pendant

Maya artist(s) · 600–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a woman in white: Lu Meiniang 廬媚娘像, by Formerly attributed to He Chong (傳)何充 (active ca. 1078-1085)

Portrait of a woman in white: Lu Meiniang 廬媚娘像

Formerly attributed to He Chong (傳)何充 (active ca. 1078-1085) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure pendant, by Tairona artist(s)

Figure pendant

Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bringing a lute to an immortal's pavilion 攜琴仙觀圖, by Formerly attributed to Guo Zhongshu (傳)郭忠恕 (910-977)

Bringing a lute to an immortal's pavilion 攜琴仙觀圖

Formerly attributed to Guo Zhongshu (傳)郭忠恕 (910-977) · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Daoist Immortals

Box with Daoist Immortals

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe for a statue

Robe for a statue

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daoist deity Zhenwu with two attendants

Daoist deity Zhenwu with two attendants

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Serpent brooch with pendants

Serpent brooch with pendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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
Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1878 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design with the Virtue Hope, Plate 3, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Pendant Design with the Virtue Hope, Plate 3, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle pendant, by Chiriquí artist(s)

Eagle pendant

Chiriquí artist(s) · 800–1519 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Pendants with Caryatides and Dolphins

Design for Two Pendants with Caryatides and Dolphins

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal-Headed Figure Pendant

Animal-Headed Figure Pendant

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

Public domainThe Met
Pendant with Madonna

Pendant with Madonna

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Pendant with Memorial Inscription

Pendant with Memorial Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Bronze pendant in the form of a paired couple

Bronze pendant in the form of a paired couple

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century 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. 129 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. 253384 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 2026-08-28 13:25 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.