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 brooch with green diamonds and pearls” — 64 records examined, 10 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 green diamonds and pearls
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

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

Brooch
Edward Burr · ca. 1836–50

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

Brooch
Jaques & Marcus · ca. 1882–92

Design for Two Brooches
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Cluster Brooch with Letters Spelling "Amor"
Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

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

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

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

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

Design for Two Brooches
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Pendant in the form of a mermaid
Reinhold Vasters · ca. 1870–95

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

Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770

Design for a Chatelaine with Watch
Alexis Falize, French, 1811–1898 · ca. 1875

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

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

Cabinet
Herman Doomer · ca. 1640–50

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. 203 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1640180 matched · 40 examined · 1 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.