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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Harness Ornament with Tigers
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Harnessed Tiger Moth
Artist not stated in the record

Harness ornament with a winged horse
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Bobbins for lace making
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Harness Ornaments
Artist not stated in the record · 200–400

Tiger-shaped ornament or weight
Artist not stated in the record · 220-589

Harness Ornament with a Crouching Tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Possibly weight with a crouching tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

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

Design for Two Printed Floral Bands
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Gold Stud, possibly for a Horse Harness
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600

Ornament in the form of a tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

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

Ornament in the form of a tiger (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 900 BCE

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

Tiger-shaped ornament or weight
Artist not stated in the record · 220-589
Harness Ornament with Stag
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Tiger-shaped ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Harness Ornament with Gazelle
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
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.