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. 12 shown for “Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree” — 23 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God
Maya artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later

Horse frontlet with an incised guilloche design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

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

Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s

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

Furniture plaque carved in relief with a striding, ram-headed sphinx supported by two kneeling figures
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE
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. 23 matched · 23 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 21:34 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.