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. 24 shown for “Horse blinker carved in relief with a wedjat eye” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:26 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 blinker carved in relief with a wedjat eye

Horse blinker carved in relief with a wedjat eye

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace with Sacred Eye of Wedjat or Horas, by Unidentified

Necklace with Sacred Eye of Wedjat or Horas

Unidentified · 600-300 B.C.

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

Panel with Horse Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

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

Public domainThe Met
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tympanum with a Horse and Rider

Tympanum with a Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Box with Relief-carved Lid, by Unidentified

Box with Relief-carved Lid

Unidentified · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whip Handle in the Shape of a Horse

Whip Handle in the Shape of a Horse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Knife Sharpener with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Knife Sharpener with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze man and centaur

Bronze man and centaur

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail

Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Doors, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for Doors

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Wood Carving of a Horse, by Ira Blount

Wood Carving of a Horse

Ira Blount · 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief panel showing two baboons offering the wedjat eye to the sun god Khepri, who holds the Underworld sign

Relief panel showing two baboons offering the wedjat eye to the sun god Khepri, who holds the Underworld sign

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze horse

Bronze horse

Artist not stated in the record · mid-8th century BCE

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
Relief fragment: cavalryman leading his horse beside a stream

Relief fragment: cavalryman leading his horse beside a stream

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 704–681 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Knife

Knife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

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. 322 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. 7483342 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-27 08:26 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.