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 insized letters” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 07:53 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 insized letters
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Brooch
Carlo Giuliano · before 1896

Brooch and box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Brooch with Greek letters
Castellani · ca. 1860

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

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

Designs for Three Brooches
Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1770

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

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

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

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

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

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

Brooch
Ball, Black & Co. · mid-19th century

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

Brooch
Edward Burr · ca. 1836–50

Designs for Two Brooches
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Brooch
Theodore B. Starr · ca. 1900

Design for Two Brooches Depicting a Man and Woman
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Cameo brooch and bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 600–650

Design for a Brooch
Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1765
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. 1527 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. 642957 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 07:53 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.