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 “Ewer with Inscriptions and Hunting Scenes” — 64 records examined, 6 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.
Ewer with Inscriptions and Hunting Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Deer Hunt with Bow and Arrow
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596–99

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Design after Paintings by Raphael and Paintings in Bologna by Albani, Francia, Parmigianino; Monument Verso: Anatomical Study
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Maharao Umed Singh hunting tigers
Hans Raj Joshi (1750-1799) · 1787

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Stag Hunt with Rifles
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · late 1590s

Ewer
Jean Gorges I Morel · early 18th century

Vase Mounted as Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Savoyards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Ewer of Zenobius
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Vase Mounted as Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Designs for Firearms Ornament and Hunting Scenes
Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776 · 1736

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

Hunting Scene with a Dog and Birds
Charles Dagomer, French, active 1750 – d.1766 · 1755–76

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
I N · 1675/76

Handkerchief
Artist not stated in the record · 1790s

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

Tobacco box
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century

Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE
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. 1706 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. 1526952 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-26 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.