OpenTwo 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 with attached cheekpieces” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Horse bit with attached cheekpieces
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE
Windmill & Rail Road
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
Horse bit with attached cheekpieces
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–4th century BCE
Horse saddle used by stuntman Ernest "Ernie" Robinson
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1971
Bronze horse bit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 725–700 BCE
Horse collar owned by Morton Lyles
Unidentified · 19th century
Horse Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century
Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family
Homer Hardiman, American · 19th century
Snaffle Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE
Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Snaffle Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–7th century BCE
Curb Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE
Curb Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE
Snaffle Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–7th century BCE
Snaffle Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–7th century BCE
Snaffle Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–7th century BCE
Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91
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. 81 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. 259972 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 2026-09-02 00:47 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.