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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ax head with monkey figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

LE LAVEMENT DONNÉ
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

Seated hollow figure with helmet
Las Bocas artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Standing Youth and Seated Magus with Monkey on Leash, plate 18 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · 1750-60

Monkey vessel
Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artists · 1350–1521 CE

Twin Whistling Pot
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1400

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.

Fantastical Garden with Figures
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Double-chambered vessel with monkey
Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Scherzi di Fantasia
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

Spider monkey wearing wind god regalia
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE
![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](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-1901-39-154rectoMFlynn.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
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

Stirrup-spout bottle with monkey and snake
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Arabesque Ornament Design
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

Bottle in the shape of a monkey
Nasca artist(s) · 1–600 CE

Ojime
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

MARS OU LA GUERRE
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

Miniature coffin of Saiah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

Illustration for the Poem 'Ode on the Spring'
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

Young Woman with a Pink
Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90
![The Mocking of Christ [left]; Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-7928_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
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
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.