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 “Scene with monkeys and baboons” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:03 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.

Scene with monkeys and baboons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Scarab with Baboons of Thoth Adoring Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Relief panel showing two baboons offering the wedjat eye to the sun god Khepri, who holds the Underworld sign
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Figure of baboon on a basket and with a pillar (shebet offering)
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Book of the Dead for the Chantress of Amun, Nauny
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050 BCE

Young Woman with a Pink
Hans Memling · ca. 1485–90

The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Rumal with Scenes from the Ramayana
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Hanuman Conversing
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Relief from the Chapel of the Overseer of the Troops Sehetepibre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

Krishna Revels with the Gopis: Page from a Dispersed Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherds)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40
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. 102 matched · 24 examined · 3 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 2026-08-27 11:03 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.