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. 20 shown for “Vulture Killing a Hare” — 57 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 23:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vulture vessel
Itzocan artist(s) · 1200–1521 CE

Vulture Killing a Hare
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–1770

Mister Vulture
J. J. Grandville · 1840

Study of a Dog Beside Killed Game
Henry Bernard Chalon, English, 1770 - 1849 · 1825–1849

Bronze statuette of a kneeling boy holding a hare
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–2nd century BCE

Sylvilagus brasiliensis gabbi
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1979

Earflare with Condor
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Vultur gryphus
Artist not stated in the record

Earflare with condor
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Vultur gryphus
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1896

Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–664 BCE

Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s

Vultur gryphus
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1870

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Hunters' tales, from 'Hunting sketches,' published in Le Charivari, October 29, 1864
Honoré Daumier · October 29, 1864

Exhibition Vase with Scenes from the Ramayana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880s

Turkey Vulture
Artist not stated in the record

Pair of earflares with condors
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century
Maharana Sangram Singh II Hunts Hares at Naramangra
Unidentified artist · ca. 1720–30

Vultur gryphus
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Feb 1946
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. 17 matched · 17 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. 1774186 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-08 23:24 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.