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. 16 shown for “Irish Brooch, 1800s” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:11 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.
Open-Ring Brooch

Open-Ring Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 800s

Public domainThe Met
Irish Brooch, 1800s

Irish Brooch, 1800s

Artist not stated in the record · 1840-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dalriada Brooch

Dalriada Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century (original dated 12th century)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celtic Brooch

Celtic Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century (original dated 8th–11th century)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a brooch

Design for a brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annular Brooch

Annular Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for brooch

Design for brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Penannular Brooch

Penannular Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a brooch

Design for a brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Penannular Brooch

Penannular Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch from Kilmainham

Brooch from Kilmainham

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century (original dated 11th century)

Public domainThe Met
Brooch

Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch

Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch

Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 42 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 71389 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 23:11 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.