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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 “The Elephant King Wrestles a Crocodile: Illustration from a Gajendramoksha Series” — 61 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 15:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Elephant King Wrestles a Crocodile: Illustration from a Gajendramoksha Series
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Porte, dans le grand Appartement des Tuilleries
François Chauveau, French, 1613 – 1676 · 1710
Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1260–70
Crocodile Hunt in Egypt
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Fight between Elephants and Snakes
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
![Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8156_03-000003.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before
Africa from a set of The Four Continents
Jean Jacques François Le Barbier · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91
Grand Trumeau de la Galerie d’Apollon.
Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726 · 1710
View of a Mosque and Gateway at Motijhil
Sita Ram · ca. 1814–23
Covered Goblet Depicting Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–70
Orufanran Costume Attachment: Crocodile Head
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century
Design for a Cartouche Representing the Continent of Africa
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740
"A Bathhouse Keeper is Consumed by Passion for his Beloved", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98
LA PHARMACIE
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1738
Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Shah Muhammad of Sabzavar · 17th century
The Thieves and the Ass, Illustration for Aesop's Fables
Victor Wilbour · ca. 1916
Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1602 (text); 19th century (paintings, illumination, binding)
Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90
King Dasaratha and His Retinue Proceed to Rama's Wedding: Folio from the Shangri Ramayana Series (Style II)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710
Crocodile Hunt in Tentyra, in Egypt, plate 30 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or after
"The Battle of Pashan Begins", Folio 243v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1530–35
Dinner Plate with the Arms of Ker-Martin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 1 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. 2754223 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-04 15:31 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.