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. 20 shown for “Disk Brooch” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:02 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.
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · second half 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Four Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style, by Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89

Four Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style

Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89 · 1860–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch with Cameo

Disk Brooch with Cameo

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 (mount); 100–300 (cameo)

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Brooches

Designs for Two Brooches

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 100–300

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 100–300

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 650–725

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch with putti and eagle

Design for brooch with putti and eagle

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style, by Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89

Two Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style

Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89 · 1860–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · mid-600s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch, by Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89

Design for a Brooch

Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89 · 1860–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · first half 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 147 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 5680 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 16:02 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.