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. 22 shown for “Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a snake's head” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:50 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 snake's head

Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a snake's head

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

Public domainThe Met
Handle

Handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

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

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Snake-form belt buckle

Snake-form belt buckle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze horse bit

Bronze horse bit

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

Public domainThe Met
Ewer with a Bas-Relief

Ewer with a Bas-Relief

Artist not stated in the record · 1543

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Bit

Horse Bit

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

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snaffle Bit

Snaffle Bit

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bracelet with Alternate Suggestions

Design for a Bracelet with Alternate Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

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

Panel with Horse Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736

Ornamental Vase Design

L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snaffle Bit

Snaffle Bit

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

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Vase

Decorative Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snaffle Bit

Snaffle Bit

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

Public domainThe Met
Censer and Candelabrum Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Censer and Candelabrum Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snaffle Bit

Snaffle Bit

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

Public domainThe Met
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curb Bit

Curb Bit

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Title Page

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snaffle Bit

Snaffle Bit

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Curb Bit

Curb Bit

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st 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. 477 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. 7483746 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 00:50 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.