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. 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

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.
Brooch, by Marcus and Co.

Brooch

Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with couped pediment and diamond

Design for brooch with couped pediment and diamond

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch, by Edward Burr

Brooch

Edward Burr · ca. 1836–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch with Moses

Design for Brooch with Moses

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peacock feather brooch

Peacock feather brooch

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

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
Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork

Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork

Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch with Winged Boy

Design for a Brooch with Winged Boy

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bracelet, by A. J. Hedges & Co.

Bracelet

A. J. Hedges & Co. · 1879–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with hanging drop and sun face

Design for brooch with hanging drop and sun face

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chalice

Design for a Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th–late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parure of diadem, brooch and necklace with lapis lazuli and enamel, by Alexis Falize

Parure of diadem, brooch and necklace with lapis lazuli and enamel

Alexis Falize · ca. 1830–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for Three Brooches

Design for Three Brooches

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Gold Earring with Two Buckets and Pulley, by Anonymous, French, 19th century

Design for a Gold Earring with Two Buckets and Pulley

Anonymous, French, 19th century · ca. 1870–1900

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for a Gateway for a Prison Erected by Pope Pius VI, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sketches for a Gateway for a Prison Erected by Pope Pius VI

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry Designs in Gold, Diamonds and Other Precious Stones, Plate 7 from "L'Art de la Bijouterie", by Jean Francois Barousse

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

Jean Francois Barousse · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch with Woman in Broken Pedimet

Design for Brooch with Woman in Broken Pedimet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ein neues Buch von allerhand Gold-Arbeit, auff unterschiedliche Art und Manier sehr wol u. nüzlich zu gebrauchen, by Joseph Friedrich Leopold

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

Joseph Friedrich Leopold · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Design for a coronet, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design for a coronet

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male Actor in Ballet Costume, by Jean Berain

Male Actor in Ballet Costume

Jean Berain · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Six Brooches, by Girolamo Venturi

Design for Six Brooches

Girolamo Venturi · 1739

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. 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.