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 “Monkey playing the lyre and carrying a dish on its head” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:25 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.

Monkey playing the lyre and carrying a dish on its head
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Amulet: Woman Playing Lyre
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

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

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Dish (piatto): Man Washing the Mouth of an Ass
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–60

Vitellius tazza
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1587–99, foot added after mid-19th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
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. 183 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 21:25 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.