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. 17 shown for “Tapered pendant” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Glass pendant shaped like a jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century CE

Tapered pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 BCE

"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

Tapered pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 BCE

Pendant, Tapering Cylinder, Foliate
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–12th century

Tapered pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 BCE

The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Chair
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Bird Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–700 CE
Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–40

Crowned Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–early 4th century

Glass pendant in the form of a jar
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–early 5th century CE

The Cascade
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1775

A Shaded Avenue
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1775

Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Glass pendant in the form of an amphora
Artist not stated in the record · Late 7th–5th century BCE

Glass pendant in the form of a jug
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–early 5th century CE
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. 46 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. 9556 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-07 06:58 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.