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 “Horses Harnessed to a Chariot” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Horses Harnessed to a Chariot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Char de Mars
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE
Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family
Homer Hardiman, American · 19th century

Terracotta lekythos (perfume flask)
Sappho Painter · early 5th century BCE

Char de Ceres.
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

Terracotta chariot krater
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1350 BCE

Horses and Wagon (The Picnic Excursion)
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1868

Bronze horse
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Peace in a chariot, Sala di Recezione, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Whip Handle in the Shape of a Horse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

A Chariot Procession
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Limestone votive chariot with four horses and two figures
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Minerva in a Chariot
Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921 · ca. 1894

Terracotta statuette of a horse
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Terracotta chariot krater
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1230 BCE

Char de l'Hymen.
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

Terracotta statuette of a horse
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Study of a Horse, Quimper, Brittany
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1873–74

Horse Harness
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Ceiling Decoration, Victory in a Chariot, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Bronze and iron fittings from a cart or chariot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Chariot Procession
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795
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. 536 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. 2249415 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-01 20:13 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.