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 “Bat Motif” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pipa (琵琶 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Bat Motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Bottle with leaf-nosed bat head
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Vase
Joseph-Théodore Deck · ca. 1890

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Gourd-shaped vase with gourds and bats
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Rank Badge with Manchurian Crane, Wave and Cloud Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Rank Badge with Bird and Flower Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Flying Bats
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Rank Badge with Leopard, Wave and Sun Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Thetis
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

Panel with Fish, Bats, and Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Pedestal vessel
Ulúa Valley artist(s) · 800–1000 CE

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Design Amulet with Loop on Back, Device with Dancing God, Hathor Symbol and Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2325–2150 BCE

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Vessel with throne scene
Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Arabesque Ornament Designs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

Table Valance with Autumn Garden
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Puzza tenant son fils Horus Divinitéz qui préside aux grains et fruits Chez les Chinois
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736
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. 431 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. 10487 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-02 05:10 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.