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. 23 shown for “Round Box Brooch” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:17 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.
Round Box Brooch

Round Box Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 700–900

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round Box Brooch

Round Box Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1100

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wing Brooch

Wing Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 100–200

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

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

Brooch

Edward Burr · ca. 1836–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch

Design for a Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brooch, by Tiffany & Co.

Brooch

Tiffany & Co. · 1868

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
Brooch, by Jaques & Marcus

Brooch

Jaques & Marcus · ca. 1882–92

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
Animal-Head Brooch

Animal-Head Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1100

Public domainThe Met
Design for Three Brooches

Design for Three Brooches

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box (part of a set), by Nicolas François Foulon

Box (part of a set)

Nicolas François Foulon · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch and Pendant

Design for Brooch and Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch with Cherubins

Design for Brooch with Cherubins

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round tea table

Round tea table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Brooch Design

Brooch Design

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reversible brooch, by Alexis Falize

Reversible brooch

Alexis Falize · ca. 1869

Public domainThe Met
Serpent brooch with pendants

Serpent brooch with pendants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
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. 405 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. 126874 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-26 20:17 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.