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. 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

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.
Portrait of a Couple in a Round Pendant

Portrait of a Couple in a Round Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch and Pendant

Design for Brooch and Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, by Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s)

Pendant

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

Pendant

Maya artist(s) · 600–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

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
Design for pendant with winged geni

Design for pendant with winged geni

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Design for Pendant with Half Figures

Design for Pendant with Half Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Lanyard worn by Baba Chuck

Lanyard worn by Baba Chuck

Artist not stated in the record · late 20th-early 21st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Henri Fantin-Latour

Portrait of a Woman

Henri Fantin-Latour · 1885

Public domainThe Met
A Pendant

A Pendant

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua, by Kongo artist

Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua

Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)

Public domainThe Met
Design for pendant with diamond and figures

Design for pendant with diamond and figures

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Girl in a Round Pendant

Portrait of a Girl in a Round Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of earrings

Pair of earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

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. 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.