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 “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

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.
Horses Harnessed to a Chariot

Horses Harnessed to a Chariot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Char de Mars, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de Mars

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family, by Homer Hardiman, American

Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family

Homer Hardiman, American · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (perfume flask), by Sappho Painter

Terracotta lekythos (perfume flask)

Sappho Painter · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Char de Ceres., by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de Ceres.

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta chariot krater

Terracotta chariot krater

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

Public domainThe Met
Horses and Wagon (The Picnic Excursion), by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Horses and Wagon (The Picnic Excursion)

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze horse

Bronze horse

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Peace in a chariot, Sala di Recezione, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Peace in a chariot, Sala di Recezione, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

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
A Chariot Procession

A Chariot Procession

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone votive chariot with four horses and two figures

Limestone votive chariot with four horses and two figures

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Minerva in a Chariot, by Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921

Minerva in a Chariot

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a horse

Terracotta statuette of a horse

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta chariot krater

Terracotta chariot krater

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

Public domainThe Met
Char de l'Hymen., by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de l'Hymen.

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a horse

Terracotta statuette of a horse

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Horse, Quimper, Brittany, by Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920

Study of a Horse, Quimper, Brittany

Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 1873–74

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Harness

Horse Harness

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

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Decoration, Victory in a Chariot, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling Decoration, Victory in a Chariot, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze and iron fittings from a cart or chariot

Bronze and iron fittings from a cart or chariot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chariot Procession

Chariot Procession

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

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. 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.