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. 14 shown for “Snuff bottle with camel wrangler and Manchu horse rider” — 42 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Snuff bottle with camel wrangler and Manchu horse rider
Artist not stated in the record

Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April–March 1868

Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 19, 1868

Mixed Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

Artillery Horses with Riders
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field
Artist not stated in the record · 1956 - 1965

Sketches of Camels and Riders, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–March 1868

Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

Camels on a Mountainside with Mixed Sketches, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 18, 1868

Snuff bottle and stopper
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Sample
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Mixed Studies with Mounted Bedouin Guides, Palestine or Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

Post Office Department patch
Artist not stated in the record · 1965-1970
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1527357 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 05:17 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.