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 “Inrō with Seven Horses by a River” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.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.

Inrō with Seven Horses by a River
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Aduno Koro (Ark of the World) vessel with ancestral figures
Dogon blacksmith · 16th–19th century

Trotting horse
Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Panel with Horse Heads
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Theodosius Arrives at Ephesus, from a Scene from the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Young Woman with a Pink
Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

The Story of Joseph
Biagio d'Antonio

Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
Paul Cézanne · 1882–85

Armor (Gusoku)
Bamen Tomotsugu · 18th century

Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

"The Besotted Iranian Camp Attacked by Night", Folio 241r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525–30
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. 490 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 11:13 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.