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. 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

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.
Terracotta horse's head with harness

Terracotta horse's head with harness

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Camels on a Mountainside with Mixed Sketches, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Camels on a Mountainside with Mixed Sketches, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 18, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by The Horse-Head Amphorae

Terracotta amphora (jar)

The Horse-Head Amphorae · ca. 600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family, by Homer Hardiman, American

Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family

Homer Hardiman, American · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Horse Heads

Panel with Horse Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
The Horse and the Ass, Illustration for Aesop's Fables, by Victor Wilbour

The Horse and the Ass, Illustration for Aesop's Fables

Victor Wilbour · ca. 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aduno Koro (Ark of the World) vessel with ancestral figures, by Dogon blacksmith

Aduno Koro (Ark of the World) vessel with ancestral figures

Dogon blacksmith · 16th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Model of a Carriage

Model of a Carriage

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Harness

Horse Harness

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

Public domainThe Met
Horse collar owned by Morton Lyles, by Unidentified

Horse collar owned by Morton Lyles

Unidentified · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense), by Ambrogio de Osma

Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense)

Ambrogio de Osma · ca. 1460–70

Public domainThe Met
The Blue Brougham, by Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892

The Blue Brougham

Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892 · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Harness

Horse Harness

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

Public domainThe Met
Untitled, by Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940

Untitled

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harness Ornaments

Harness Ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · 200–400

Public domainThe Met
Skewer with Horse Head Terminal

Skewer with Horse Head Terminal

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse's head with harness

Horse's head with harness

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Six Scenes; Verso: Five Studies of Horse Heads; Head of Lion, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page: Six Scenes; Verso: Five Studies of Horse Heads; Head of Lion

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
J.R. Hewitt, Saddle, Harness and Trunk Maker, by Chubbuck, Thomas

J.R. Hewitt, Saddle, Harness and Trunk Maker

Chubbuck, Thomas · n.d.

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
Man Riding a Horse, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Man Riding a Horse

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One of Two Doors with Ironwork

One of Two Doors with Ironwork

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Horses and Wagon (The Picnic Excursion), by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Horses and Wagon (The Picnic Excursion)

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1868

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. 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.