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 Oval Diamond” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:30 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.
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch, by John Champion

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch

John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch with Oval Diamond

Design for a Brooch with Oval Diamond

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869), by Samuel Jackson

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)

Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with round diamond

Design for brooch with round diamond

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Repeating watch, by Francis Perigal

Repeating watch

Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play, by Jean Georges (or George)

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play

Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch with Apollo

Design for Brooch with Apollo

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch, by F. L. Meybom

Watch

F. L. Meybom · ca. 1670–75

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Bracelet and Brooch

Designs for a Bracelet and Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

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

Brooch

Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Design for Six Brooches, by Girolamo Venturi

Design for Six Brooches

Girolamo Venturi · 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prudence, by Etienne Delaune

Prudence

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with diamonds and pearls

Design for brooch with diamonds and pearls

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France, by Joseph Etienne Blerzy

Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France

Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1779–80

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Brooches

Design for Two Brooches

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

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

Belt buckle

Carlo Giuliano · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Design for a brooch

Design for a brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch

Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Oval Diamond Brooch

Oval Diamond Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with Charity and Her Children

Pendant with Charity and Her Children

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch

Design for brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

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. 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.