OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Ax head with monkey figure” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:17 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Ax head with monkey figure

Ax head with monkey figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
LE LAVEMENT DONNÉ, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LE LAVEMENT DONNÉ

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated hollow figure with helmet, by Las Bocas artist(s)

Seated hollow figure with helmet

Las Bocas artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Standing Youth and Seated Magus with Monkey on Leash, plate 18 from the Scherzi di Fantasia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Standing Youth and Seated Magus with Monkey on Leash, plate 18 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · 1750-60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monkey vessel, by Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artists

Monkey vessel

Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artists · 1350–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Twin Whistling Pot

Twin Whistling Pot

Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1400

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Amulet with a Hippopotamus (? ) Head on the Back Pierced for Stringing, and a Left-facing Monkey as the Device

Design Amulet with a Hippopotamus (? ) Head on the Back Pierced for Stringing, and a Left-facing Monkey as the Device

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2150–2100 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fantastical Garden with Figures, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Fantastical Garden with Figures

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-chambered vessel with monkey, by Chimú artist(s)

Double-chambered vessel with monkey

Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
Scherzi di Fantasia

Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spider monkey wearing wind god regalia, by Mexica artist(s)

Spider monkey wearing wind god regalia

Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [above left]; Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [below left]; Dragon Hunt in India [above right]; Dragon Hunt in India [below right]., by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [above left]; Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [below left]; Dragon Hunt in India [above right]; Dragon Hunt in India [below right].

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with monkey and snake, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with monkey and snake

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Design, by Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840

Arabesque Ornament Design

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle in the shape of a monkey, by Nasca artist(s)

Bottle in the shape of a monkey

Nasca artist(s) · 1–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ojime

Ojime

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
MARS OU LA GUERRE, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

MARS OU LA GUERRE

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature coffin of Saiah

Miniature coffin of Saiah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Illustration for the Poem 'Ode on the Spring', by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Illustration for the Poem 'Ode on the Spring'

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Pink, by Hans Memling

Young Woman with a Pink

Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
The Mocking of Christ [left]; Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Mocking of Christ [left]; Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1584-1587

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 97 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. 335349 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-29 07:17 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.