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 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

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 a Brooch with Flowers

Design for a Brooch with Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch, by Marcus and Co.

Brooch

Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

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

Brooch

Carlo Giuliano · before 1896

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Brooches, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Designs for Three Brooches

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch

Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

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

Brooch

Castellani · before 1888

Public domainThe Met
Four Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style, by Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89

Four Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style

Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89 · 1860–65

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
Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower

Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Design for Brooch with Diamonds

Design for Brooch with Diamonds

Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brooch in the form of a pansy, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Brooch in the form of a pansy

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wing Brooch

Wing Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 100–200

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Necklace, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Design for a Necklace

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Corsage

Design for a Corsage

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

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. 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.