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 “Design for Oblong Brooch” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 10:53 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.
Brooch, by Marcus and Co.

Brooch

Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Design for Oblong Brooch

Design for Oblong Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch, by Carlo Giuliano

Brooch

Carlo Giuliano · before 1896

Public domainThe Met
Design for oblong brooch with diamond

Design for oblong brooch with diamond

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wing Brooch

Wing Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 100–200

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch

Design for Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch, by Edward Burr

Brooch

Edward Burr · ca. 1836–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch with Putti

Design for a Brooch with Putti

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 600–650

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch with Moses

Design for Brooch with Moses

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval Brooch

Oval Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch with Winged Boy

Design for a Brooch with Winged Boy

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch, by Ferdinand Hauser

Brooch

Ferdinand Hauser · ca. 1912–13

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
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oblong Plaster Ceiling, by George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813

Design for an Oblong Plaster Ceiling

George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813 · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parure: tiara, necklace, and brooch, by Luigi Saulini

Parure: tiara, necklace, and brooch

Luigi Saulini · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Oblong Plaster Ceiling for the First Hall, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England, by Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806

Design for Oblong Plaster Ceiling for the First Hall, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England

Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806 · 1786–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terminal for an Open Ring Brooch

Terminal for an Open Ring Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 950

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration with Central Oblong, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Ceiling Decoration with Central Oblong

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch with Greek letters, by Castellani

Brooch with Greek letters

Castellani · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Oblong Ceiling, by Andrea Pazzi, Italian, active 18th century

Design for a Painted Oblong Ceiling

Andrea Pazzi, Italian, active 18th century · 1700–25

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. 296 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 494641 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 10:53 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.