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. 23 shown for “Jar Decorated with a Baby Monkey” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jar Decorated with a Baby Monkey
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3700–3450 B.C.

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Female Monkey Holding Its Baby
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Jar
John M. Safford · 1838

Ambrotype of a white baby being held by a man
Unidentified · 1855-1860

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Baby Rattle with Bust of a Baby in a Nightcap
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1400

Female Monkey with umbrella
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–90

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–200 CE

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

Jar
Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

Jar
Paul Cushman · 1805–33

Inkwell
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Baby's cap
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Plate
Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · 1745–49

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Jar
Thomas W. Commeraw · 1796–1819

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875
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. 856 matched · 24 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. 1897413 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-03 17:45 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.