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. 22 shown for “Design for brooch with couped pediment and diamond” — 55 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Brooch
Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

Design for brooch with couped pediment and diamond
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Brooch
Edward Burr · ca. 1836–50

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

Peacock feather brooch
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter 19th century

Design for brooch with round diamond
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork
Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656

Design for a Brooch with Winged Boy
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Bracelet
A. J. Hedges & Co. · 1879–90

Design for brooch with hanging drop and sun face
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Design for a Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th–late 17th century

Parure of diadem, brooch and necklace with lapis lazuli and enamel
Alexis Falize · ca. 1830–70

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

Design for a Gold Earring with Two Buckets and Pulley
Anonymous, French, 19th century · ca. 1870–1900

Sketches for a Gateway for a Prison Erected by Pope Pius VI
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Jewelry Designs in Gold, Diamonds and Other Precious Stones, Plate 7 from "L'Art de la Bijouterie"
Jean Francois Barousse · 1879

Design for Brooch with Woman in Broken Pedimet
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Ein neues Buch von allerhand Gold-Arbeit, auff unterschiedliche Art und Manier sehr wol u. nüzlich zu gebrauchen
Joseph Friedrich Leopold · 1716

Design for a coronet
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1820

Male Actor in Ballet Costume
Jean Berain · n.d.

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

Design for Six Brooches
Girolamo Venturi · 1739
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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1572618 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 06:36 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.