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 a Brooch with Flowers” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Design for a Brooch with Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Brooch
Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Brooch
Carlo Giuliano · before 1896

Designs for Three Brooches
Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1770

Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Brooch
Castellani · before 1888

Four Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style
Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89 · 1860–65

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

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

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

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

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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

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

Design for a Necklace
Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1765

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Design for a Corsage
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century
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. 20980 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2178432 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 03:36 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.