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 “Chinese zodiac figure of a pig” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chinese zodiac figure of a pig
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894

Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894

Set of twelve zodiac animals
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894

Chinese musicians
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894

Figure of a standing Chinese man
Villeroy · ca. 1740

Title Page Design for Le Zodiaque Travesti (Farcical Zodiac)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894

Pig
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894

Pig
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Capricorne (Capricorn) from le Zodiac Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Pipa (琵琶 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, La Balance (Libra) from le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Pig Painter · ca. 475–465 BCE

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Lion (Leo) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Old Testament figures
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894

Pig in Recumbent Position
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Study for "Zodiac"
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1894
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. 1442 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 3860280 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 09:15 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.