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 Strapwork Brooch” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Brooch
Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

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

Brooch
Carlo Giuliano · before 1896

Plate 13, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)
René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

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

Design for a Brooch
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

Brooch
Edward Burr · ca. 1836–50

Title Page
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

Oval Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1000

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

Brooch
Ferdinand Hauser · ca. 1912–13

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

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

Parure: tiara, necklace, and brooch
Luigi Saulini · mid-19th century

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

Terminal for an Open Ring Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 950

Design for a Brooch
George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

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

Brooch with Greek letters
Castellani · ca. 1860

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

Brooch with Greek Cross
Castellani · ca. 1860

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725
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. 334 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 2092115 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 2026-08-28 08:34 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.