OpenTwo 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 “Black Caterpillar Hunter” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Limestone torso of a hunter
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE
Black Caterpillar Hunter
Artist not stated in the record · 1906
A Caterpillar and Two Moths on a Branch and Two Butterflies
Nicolaas Struyk · early 18th–mid 18th century
Caterpillar Hunter
Artist not stated in the record · 1906
Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE
Forest Caterpillar Hunter
Artist not stated in the record · 1924
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 510 BCE
Paphiopedilum Black Hunter
Artist not stated in the record
Standing Hunter Holding a Rifle
Nicolas Lancret · 18th century
Brown Bird on Apple Branch, with Caterpillar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
Mounted Hunter with Cheetah
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Smaller Spotted Beach Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Emma Beach Thayer, born New York City 1849-died Peekskill, NY 1924
The Hunter and the Dogs
Pieter van Laer, called Il Bamboccio · 1636
"Mirror-Back" Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Gerald H. Thayer, born Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 1883-died Keene, NH 1939
Case (Inrō) with a Fox from the Kyōgen Play The Fox Hunter (Tsurigitsune); Hunter behind Haystacks from the Kyōgen Play "Hakuzōsu" (reverse)
Shibata Zeshin · 19th century
Lunar Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921 · n.d.
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Göttingen Painter · ca. 500 BCE
Lunar Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921 · n.d.
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Oak Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Gerald H. Thayer, born Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 1883-died Keene, NH 1939
Panel with Sketches of a Man, a Lion and an Arabesque
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century
White Birch Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Emma Beach Thayer, born New York City 1849-died Peekskill, NY 1924
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunter spearing a lion before deity with staff
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 17th century BCE (?)
Oak Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Gerald H. Thayer, born Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 1883-died Keene, NH 1939
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. 190 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 84882 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-05 07:04 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.