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 “Orthostat relief: lion attacking a deer” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Orthostat relief: lion attacking a deer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE

Design for Woven Silk and Embroidery, with Lion attacking a Deer (recto) and Woman swallowed by Fish (verso)
Unknown · late 14th century

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

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800
Limestone Fragment from a Frieze with a Lion Attacking an Ibex
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Terracotta brazier fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 540–530 BCE

The Lion Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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

Lion Hunt
Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738 · 1730–50

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
Antonio Rossellino · ca. 1470

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Orthostat relief: winged human-headed lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th−9th century BCE
![Deer attacked by Lynxes [above left]; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking [below left]; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp [above right]; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8034_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Deer attacked by Lynxes [above left]; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking [below left]; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp [above right]; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave [below right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596–1598

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Lion Attacking a Gavial Crocodile
Isidore-Jules Bonheur, French, b. Bordeaux, 1827–1901 · 1860

Fragment of a terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Altenburg Painter · ca. 560–550 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

Designs for a Carved Relief and Pediment
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775
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. 69 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1778868 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-31 21:43 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.