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. 13 shown for “Terminal chock from a chariot” — 41 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Snaffle Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–7th century BCE

Terminal chock from a chariot
Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

Terminal chock from a chariot
Artist not stated in the record · 5th-4th century BCE

Two Ornamental Arabesque Motifs
Etienne de Lavallée-Poussin, French, 1735–1802 · 1770

Gunmakers Workshop Surrounded by Ornament and Names of Parisian Gunmakers
C. Jacquinet, French, active 1650 – 1660 · 1660

Gunmakers Workshop with Names of Parisian Gunmakers
Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

Coffre à Bijoux
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Triumph of Silenus and Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1802

Tapestry Design: Apollo in his Chariot Led by Aurora
Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789 · 1760–89

Char de la Ville
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

Peace in a chariot, Sala di Recezione, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Unknown · ca. 1890

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1949403 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 17:49 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.