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. 17 shown for “Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a horse's head and hoof” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:36 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.
Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a horse's head and hoof

Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a horse's head and hoof

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

Public domainThe Met
Two candelsticks, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Two candelsticks

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780–1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a horse's head and hoof

Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a horse's head and hoof

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Handle (?) in the form of a horse leg and hoof

Handle (?) in the form of a horse leg and hoof

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

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

Panel with Horse Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Horseshoe, by Battin & Company, American, 1896 - 1922

Horseshoe

Battin & Company, American, 1896 - 1922 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze horse bit

Bronze horse bit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 725–700 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Chariot Procession

A Chariot Procession

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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
Armor for Man and Horse

Armor for Man and Horse

Artist not stated in the record · comprehensively ca. 1450–1550

Public domainThe Met
Horse Bit

Horse Bit

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

Public domainThe Met
Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553), by Kunz Lochner

Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553)

Kunz Lochner · dated 1548

Public domainThe Met
Snaffle Bit

Snaffle Bit

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Snaffle Bit

Snaffle Bit

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Snaffle Bit

Snaffle Bit

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–7th century BCE

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. 339 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. 7484058 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 20:36 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.