OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Standing Monkey Amulet” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:44 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Standing Monkey Amulet

Standing Monkey Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Le Feu, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Le Feu

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet

Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Standing Youth and Seated Magus with Monkey on Leash, plate 18 from the Scherzi di Fantasia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Standing Youth and Seated Magus with Monkey on Leash, plate 18 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · 1750-60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monkey or meerkat

Monkey or meerkat

Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
LE DEJEUNÉ, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LE DEJEUNÉ

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monkey amulet

Monkey amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2150–1950 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Monkey Playing a Violin

Monkey Playing a Violin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710–1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ape Amulet

Ape Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stand

Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Monkey Holding Its Baby

Female Monkey Holding Its Baby

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
LES JOUEURS DE VOLANTS, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LES JOUEURS DE VOLANTS

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Amulet with a Hippopotamus (? ) Head on the Back Pierced for Stringing, and a Left-facing Monkey as the Device

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.

Public domainThe Met
LE CHAT QUI TIRE LES MARONS DU FEU, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LE CHAT QUI TIRE LES MARONS DU FEU

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet depicting one of the four sons of Horus, Hapy

Amulet depicting one of the four sons of Horus, Hapy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
LE LAVEMENT RENDU, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LE LAVEMENT RENDU

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Amulet, Woman Suckling a Child on Back, Device showing Geometricized Monkeys

Design Amulet, Woman Suckling a Child on Back, Device showing Geometricized Monkeys

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2080–2010 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
LE ZIGZAG, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LE ZIGZAG

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Les fins Chasseurs, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

Les fins Chasseurs

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vitrine Containing Twenty-Five Ornaments

Vitrine Containing Twenty-Five Ornaments

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

Title Page

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-chambered vessel with monkey, by Chimú artist(s)

Double-chambered vessel with monkey

Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Public domainThe Met
LES PESCHEURS, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LES PESCHEURS

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 186 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. 28305 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 17:44 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.