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 Oval Diamond” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

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

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

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

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

Design for brooch with round diamond
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 · early 19th century

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play
Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

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

Watch
F. L. Meybom · ca. 1670–75

Designs for a Bracelet and Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Brooch
Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

Design for Six Brooches
Girolamo Venturi · 1739

Prudence
Etienne Delaune · ca. 1550–60, back: 19th century

Design for brooch with diamonds and pearls
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France
Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1779–80

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

Belt buckle
Carlo Giuliano · ca. 1900

Design for a brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–50

Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Oval Diamond Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Pendant with Charity and Her Children
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Design for brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50
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. 1206 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2178470 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 06:30 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.