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 “Bird Hunting” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:56 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.

Bird Head
Artist not stated in the record · Date unknown

Jagdhorn in G
Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow (from the Hunting Parks Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515–35

Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE

Hunting Couple
Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1775

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Dugong Hunting Charm
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Hunting Horn in D
Jacob Schmidt · 1660–1720

Hunting with a Hawk (from the Hunting Parks Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515–35

Bird jar
Moche artist(s) · 200–800 CE

Panel with Hunting Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork
Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656
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. 731 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 2026-08-26 22:56 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.