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 “Fantastic animal with horn” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fantastic animal with horn
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–2nd century BCE

Cravat end
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480)
Heinrich Heid von Winterthur · dated 1460

Design for an Oil Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Crossbow
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–75

Fantastical Garden with Musicians
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Horn
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Cartouche with Obelisk and Palm
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738–45

Powder Horn
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1759

Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777

Horn (Oliphant) with Case
Artist not stated in the record · horn, 11th–12th century; case, 16th century

Four Mask (Mascaron) Designs
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

Toilet casket
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1715

Title Page
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

Beaker with birds and animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Mask (Mascaron) Designs
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

Ewer and stand (présentoir)
Martin Gizl · 1758

Four Mask (Mascaron) Designs
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Design for a Fantastic Goblet
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–60

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Fantastical Garden with Figures
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Box decorated with auspicious symbols
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50
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. 641 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1397245 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-03 05:20 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.