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. 12 shown for “Armor with Equestrian Equipment” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Trophy of Arms with an Equestrian Statue
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1657–82

Design for Equestrian Monument of Charles III
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Monument Designs
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
Robert Vaughan, c. 1600 - 1678 · c. 1622

An American Jockey
Godfrey Douglas Giles, 1857 - 1941 · 1899

Old Italian Masters
Timothy Cole, born London, England 1852-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1931

Jumpsuit, United States Army Golden Knights
Body Sport USA · ca. 2004

Allan Pinkerton
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · September 1862

Sketch, Figures with Equestrian Monuments
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Joseph Hooker
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1863

Henry Frederick, Prince of Bohemia and Prince of the Palatinate
Unidentified Artist · c. 1618
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 310284 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-04 02:16 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.