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 “Key Handle in the Form of a Horse’s Head” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Key Handle in the Form of a Horse’s Head
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century

Ornament Designs for Escutcheon and Key
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · 1662

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
I N · 1675/76

Plate 5, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1662

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl
Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · mid- 16th century

David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Design for a Tureen
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825-1835

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Staircase Balustrade Design
Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776 · 1772–77

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)
Class W: The Persian Class of Head Vases · late 5th century BCE

Title Page
Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

Bugle in C
Thomas Key · 1811

Designs for Cartouches
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Mirror with Handle in the Form of a Hathor Emblem
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Deign for a Covered Tureen
Johann Alois Seethaler, 1796 – 1835 · 1825–35

Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head
Oxford Class of Head Vases · ca. 500 BCE

Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Censer and Candelabrum Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Gold rosette with the head of a griffin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 630–620 BCE

Two Candelabra Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788
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. 8302 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. 7484530 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-03 10:26 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.