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. 24 shown for “Dish with Horse and Rider” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 04:22 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.
Dish with Horse and Rider

Dish with Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish, by Gerint Evers, German

Dish

Gerint Evers, German · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a rider wearing an elephant skin

Bronze statuette of a rider wearing an elephant skin

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Artillery Horses with Riders, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Artillery Horses with Riders

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and rider

Horse and rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field

Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field

Artist not stated in the record · 1956 - 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and rider

Horse and rider

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Post Office Department patch

Post Office Department patch

Artist not stated in the record · 1965-1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and cavalry rider

Horse and cavalry rider

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and female rider

Horse and female rider

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and female rider

Horse and female rider

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–first half of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Letter carrier uniform jacket, by Thorton Tailor

Letter carrier uniform jacket

Thorton Tailor · c. 1956-1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tympanum with a Horse and Rider

Tympanum with a Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Battle Scene, by Giulio Romano, Italian, 1499–1546

Battle Scene

Giulio Romano, Italian, 1499–1546 · 1524–46

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emaciated Horse and Rider

Emaciated Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Horse and Rider master die, by Elie Timothee Loizeaux, 1873 - 1956

Horse and Rider master die

Elie Timothee Loizeaux, 1873 - 1956 · c. 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque: side 1, Sakhmet and Nefertum on either side of the name Menkheperre (Thutmose III); side 2, rider and trampled captive

Plaque: side 1, Sakhmet and Nefertum on either side of the name Menkheperre (Thutmose III); side 2, rider and trampled captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Square

Square

Artist not stated in the record · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Service Badge

Service Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza, by Antonio Pollaiuolo

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Custodial employee chest badge

Custodial employee chest badge

Artist not stated in the record · unknown

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. 448 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1526874 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-30 04:22 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.