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 frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:27 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 frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Arabesque Panel
Jean Louis Prieur, French, 1732 - 1795 · ca. 1770

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Elevation d’une Fontaine
Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782 · 1755–1768

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Design for a Candlestick
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30

Allegorical figure
François Girardon · 1672–75

Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1755–57

Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)
Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Death Carrying a Lamp
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · 1779–84

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

Estate Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Design for a Clock
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Arabesque Ornament Design
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Design for a State Bedchamber, in Second Livre d'Appartements (Second Book on Interiors)
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1702

Relief panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Relief panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
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. 77 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7483587 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-29 16:27 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.