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 “Wing Brooch” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wing Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 100–200

Design for a Brooch with Winged Boy
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 BCE

Design for Brooch with Winged Half Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Dragonfly brooch
Edgar Bense · ca. 1890

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

Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

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

Brooch
Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

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

Bow Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550

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

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Design for a Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

Brooch with Assyrian human-headed winged bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1873

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

Brooch with Assyrian winged human-headed bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–1875

Design for brooch with putti and eagle
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Brooch in Form of a Bird of Prey
Artist not stated in the record · late 500s

Design for a brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–50

Brooch in the Form of a Cicada
Artist not stated in the record · 350–450

Design for brooch with children
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Memorial Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 1786
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. 31 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. 26372 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:40 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.