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 “Design for Brooch with Dolphins and Diamonds” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Brooch
Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

Design for Brooch with Dolphins and Diamonds
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Brooch
Carlo Giuliano · before 1896

Design for Three Brooches
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

Wing Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 100–200

Design for Six Brooches
Girolamo Venturi · 1739

Brooch
Edward Burr · ca. 1836–50

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Design for Brooch with Apollo
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Dragonfly brooch
Edgar Bense · ca. 1890

Design for brooch with round diamond
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Corsage Piece
Tiffany & Co. · 1880–95

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

Brooch
Jaques & Marcus · ca. 1882–92

Design for a Brooch with Oval Diamond
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

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

Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Design for Brooch with Palmette and Escutcheon
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
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. 759 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1573771 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-06 06:34 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.