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. 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

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.
Glass pendant shaped like a jug

Glass pendant shaped like a jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Tapered pendant

Tapered pendant

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

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
Tapered pendant

Tapered pendant

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, Tapering Cylinder, Foliate

Pendant, Tapering Cylinder, Foliate

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Tapered pendant

Tapered pendant

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Henry IV, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Triumph of Henry IV

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Chair

Chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird Pendant

Bird Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crowned Bodhisattva

Crowned Bodhisattva

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

Public domainThe Met
Glass pendant in the form of a jar

Glass pendant in the form of a jar

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–early 5th century CE

Public domainThe Met
The Cascade, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Cascade

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
A Shaded Avenue, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

A Shaded Avenue

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)

Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Glass pendant in the form of an amphora

Glass pendant in the form of an amphora

Artist not stated in the record · Late 7th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Glass pendant in the form of a jug

Glass pendant in the form of a jug

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–early 5th century 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. 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.