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. 12 shown for “Wild Animal Hunt (frieze)” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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

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

Vessel with six animal friezes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 10th–8th century BCE

Fragment of a desert hunt - see 26.3.354-5-related
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Wild Boar Piglet Clay Tomb Sculpture (Haniwa)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Head of a Hunting Spear
Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Marble sarcophagus with garlands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–225 CE

A wild boar running towards the left, a dog biting its ear behind to left, other dogs and horsemen in the background, from "Hunts of various animals" (Chasses à différents animaux)
Stefano della Bella · ca. 1651–57

"Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · dated 741 AH/1341 CE

Hunting Scene, Tomb of Ineni
Nina de Garis Davies · 1929; original ca. 1525–1425 BCE

Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Frieze Tile with Two Hunters
Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th 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. 86 matched · 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:19 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.