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. 23 shown for “Horse's head with harness” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta horse's head with harness
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–480 BCE

Camels on a Mountainside with Mixed Sketches, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 18, 1868

Terracotta amphora (jar)
The Horse-Head Amphorae · ca. 600 BCE
Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family
Homer Hardiman, American · 19th century

Panel with Horse Heads
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

The Horse and the Ass, Illustration for Aesop's Fables
Victor Wilbour · ca. 1916

Aduno Koro (Ark of the World) vessel with ancestral figures
Dogon blacksmith · 16th–19th century

Model of a Carriage
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–90

Horse Harness
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Horse collar owned by Morton Lyles
Unidentified · 19th century

Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense)
Ambrogio de Osma · ca. 1460–70

The Blue Brougham
Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892 · ca. 1860

Horse Harness
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Untitled
Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940 · ca. 1935

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

Skewer with Horse Head Terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Horse's head with harness
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Sketchbook Page: Six Scenes; Verso: Five Studies of Horse Heads; Head of Lion
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

J.R. Hewitt, Saddle, Harness and Trunk Maker
Chubbuck, Thomas · n.d.

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

Man Riding a Horse
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

One of Two Doors with Ironwork
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Horses and Wagon (The Picnic Excursion)
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1868
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. 1552 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. 307761 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 19:39 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.