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. 19 shown for “Pig” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pig
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Pig
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Pig
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Pig
Unidentified · n.d.

Pig
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Sunset Sketch
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August and September 1844

Pig
Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE–300 CE

Coyotes Stealing a Pig
John Steuart Curry, born Dunavant, KS 1897-died Madison, WI 1946 · 1927

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

Domestic Pig, Domestic Pig?, Domestic Pig?
Artist not stated in the record

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

Domestic Pig
Artist not stated in the record

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

Pig Weathervane
Unidentified · ca. 1900

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

Terracotta rattle in the form of a pig
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Terracotta vase in the form of a pig
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Bronze statuette of a youth carrying a pig
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Set of twelve zodiac animals
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century
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. 326 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 2311 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:43 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.