OpenTwo 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 “Monk” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Monk Sengqie
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–12th century
The left arm of a monk and his left hand
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900
Three Poems from the Later Collection of Japanese Poems (Gosen wakashū)
Monk Saigyō · late 12th century
Ada Monk
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85
Monk
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century
A Praying Monk
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830
Monk
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s
Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Piano bench owned and used by Thelonious Monk
Artist not stated in the record · 1962
Three Waka Poems
Tonna (Ton’a) · ca. 1368–69
In St. Peter’s, Rome
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1881
Monk Holding a Lotus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–7th century
Old Monk
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883
Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha
Artist not stated in the record · early to mid-12th century
Untitled (Study of a Standing Monk)
Ida Josephine Burgess, born Chicago, IL1855-died New York City 1934 · 1886
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō Kesa) with Stylized Chinese Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century
Bodhisattvas and Monks, from Cave 224
Unidentified · 4th-6th century
Engaged Double Capital
Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century
Two Monks, from Cave 224
Unidentified · 4th-6th century
Tomb Slab of a Monk (Father Louis)
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Monk's Head
John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1796
Alms bowl for a Buddhist monk
Artist not stated in the record
The Head of an Old Monk and the Head of a Child
Donato Creti, Italian, 1671–1749 · ca. 1710
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. 1114 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 634 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 16:57 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.