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. 20 shown for “Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jamb stove
Samuel Flower · 1756

Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Brooch in the form of a Purple Flower
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Venus and Cupids
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Brooch in the form of a pansy
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900

The Collector of Prints
Edgar Degas · 1866

Design for a Gold and Cabochon Gem Brooch
Alexis Falize, French, 1811–1898 · ca. 1855

Burgonet
Filippo Negroli · dated 1543
Brooch and pair of earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Design for a Brooch
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ
Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

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

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640
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. 2312 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2911 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 21:46 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.