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 “Bat Motif” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:10 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.
Pipa (琵琶 )

Pipa (琵琶 )

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bat Motif

Bat Motif

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with leaf-nosed bat head, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Bottle with leaf-nosed bat head

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Joseph-Théodore Deck

Vase

Joseph-Théodore Deck · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd-shaped vase with gourds and bats

Gourd-shaped vase with gourds and bats

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Manchurian Crane, Wave and Cloud Motifs

Rank Badge with Manchurian Crane, Wave and Cloud Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Bird and Flower Motifs

Rank Badge with Bird and Flower Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Flying Bats

Flying Bats

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Leopard, Wave and Sun Motifs

Rank Badge with Leopard, Wave and Sun Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Thetis, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Thetis

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Fish, Bats, and Clouds

Panel with Fish, Bats, and Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedestal vessel, by Ulúa Valley artist(s)

Pedestal vessel

Ulúa Valley artist(s) · 800–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design Amulet with Loop on Back, Device with Dancing God, Hathor Symbol and Lion

Design Amulet with Loop on Back, Device with Dancing God, Hathor Symbol and Lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2325–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with throne scene, by Chamá artist(s)

Vessel with throne scene

Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Arabesque Ornament Designs, by Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1749–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table Valance with Autumn Garden

Table Valance with Autumn Garden

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Puzza tenant son fils Horus Divinitéz qui préside aux grains et fruits Chez les Chinois, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Puzza tenant son fils Horus Divinitéz qui préside aux grains et fruits Chez les Chinois

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

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. 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.