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 Two Brooches Depicting a Man and Woman” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 09:21 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Brooches Depicting a Man and Woman

Design for Two Brooches Depicting a Man and Woman

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Artist not stated in the record · late 1000s–1100s (cameo); 1100s–1300s (mount)

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Snuff Box Covers

Designs for Snuff Box Covers

Artist not stated in the record · 1717-1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wing Brooch

Wing Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 100–200

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch with Woman in Broken Pedimet

Design for Brooch with Woman in Broken Pedimet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man and Woman in an Inn, by Frans Hals

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Public domainThe Met
Design for Oblong Brooch

Design for Oblong Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Scenes of Comedy and Ballet, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Scenes of Comedy and Ballet

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes, by Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes

Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four), by Charles Le Brun

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Public domainThe Met
Button, by Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796

Button

Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

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

Brooch with Greek letters

Castellani · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Triumphal Arch with the Royal Swedish Coat of Arms, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Triumphal Arch with the Royal Swedish Coat of Arms

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1767

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. 3302 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. 2829578 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 09:21 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.