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. 24 shown for “Portrait of a Couple in a Round Pendant” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of a Couple in a Round Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Design for a Pendant Trophy
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Design for Brooch and Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Pendant
Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s) · 1300–1521 CE

Design for Two Pendants with Caryatides and Dolphins
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Pendant
Maya artist(s) · 600–700 CE

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Design for pendant with winged geni
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Design for Pendant with Half Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Lanyard worn by Baba Chuck
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th-early 21st century

Portrait of a Woman
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1885

A Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1640–60

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)

Design for pendant with diamond and figures
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Portrait of a Girl in a Round Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Pair of earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890
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. 1298 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7483682 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 05:14 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.