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 “Frieze with Bear Hunt” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Frieze with Bear Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1617

A Princely Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Frieze with Hunting Children
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

The Return from the Hunt
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Fragment of a Frieze with the Miracle of Loaves and Fishes
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Designs for Friezes
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1640–82
Fragment of a Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1906–1907

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Frieze
Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882 · 1905–1915

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent
Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Frieze
Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · 1905–1915

Tile from a Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Peacocks and Amorini
Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915 · 1878

Tile from an Inscriptional Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Design for a Frieze Decoration with Ermine and Monogram of Anne of Brittany (recto); Design for a Wall Decoration with Coat of Arms of Anne of Brittany (verso)
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814 – 1879 · 1830–60
Tile from a Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

L’Automne
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · 1769–75

Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Wild Animal Hunt (frieze)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570
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. 349 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. 283109 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 2026-09-03 10:44 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.