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. 21 shown for “Harness Ornament with Tigers” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:12 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.
Harness Ornament with Tigers

Harness Ornament with Tigers

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Harnessed Tiger Moth

Harnessed Tiger Moth

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harness ornament with a winged horse

Harness ornament with a winged horse

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

Public domainThe Met
Bobbins for lace making

Bobbins for lace making

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harness Ornaments

Harness Ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · 200–400

Public domainThe Met
Tiger-shaped ornament or weight

Tiger-shaped ornament or weight

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harness Ornament with a Crouching Tiger

Harness Ornament with a Crouching Tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Possibly weight with a crouching tiger

Possibly weight with a crouching tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament

Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Printed Floral Bands

Design for Two Printed Floral Bands

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold Stud, possibly for a Horse Harness

Gold Stud, possibly for a Horse Harness

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600

Public domainThe Met
Ornament in the form of a tiger

Ornament in the form of a tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harness Ornament

Harness Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornament in the form of a tiger (fragment)

Ornament in the form of a tiger (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 900 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reclining tiger

Reclining tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tiger-shaped ornament or weight

Tiger-shaped ornament or weight

Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harness Ornament with Stag

Harness Ornament with Stag

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

Public domainThe Met
Tiger-shaped ornament

Tiger-shaped ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harness Ornament with Gazelle

Harness Ornament with Gazelle

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

Public domainThe Met
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 90 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. 273237 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:12 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.