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 “Vase fragment in the shape of a monkey” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vase fragment in the shape of a monkey
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Designs for Tableware, Plate XV of Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils.
William Chambers, British, b. Sweden, 1726–1796 · 1757

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Vase
Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Design for a Candlestick
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825–1835

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Terracotta vase in the shape of a monkey
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–550 BCE

Sketches
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head
Oxford Class of Head Vases · ca. 500 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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

Sepulchral Monument for Writer Vecei
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

Vase
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Two Designs for Ewer-shaped Ornaments, Album of Ornament
Franz Xaver Habermann, German, 1721 – 1796 · ca. 1750

Vase
Worcester factory · ca. 1753–54

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–25

Vase
Artist not stated in the record

Ornamental Vase Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1767-1793
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. 18602 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 7484542 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 15:36 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.