OpenTwo 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. 23 shown for “Flying Bats” — 60 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Demons dancing with women and bats flying through the sky
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1880–1910 (a later impression)
Flying Bats
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century
Bowl imitating carved lacquer
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century
Apollo in his Chariot Transforms Night into Day
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · ca. 1800
Mug
Rookwood Pottery Company · 1892
Moon Face
George W. Shiebler & Co., American, 1876 - 1910 · 1885–95
Presentation box for a brush
Artist not stated in the record
Bridges and Bats on Lattice
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Monkey, Birds, and Insects
Mathais Beitler · 1582–1616
Grotesque for an Oblong Panel
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50
Rank Badge with Paradise Fly-Catcher
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Le Tombeau de Voltaire
Dubern & Cie. · ca. 1785
Rank Badge with Paradise Fly-Catcher
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century
Boyeria vinosa
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 2002
Rank Badge with Paradise Fly-Catcher
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Anax junius
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2002
Rank Badge with Paradise Fly-Catcher
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century
Sympetrum vulgatum
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jan 1968
Plate 43 from "Los Caprichos": The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1799
Slugger's stickball baseball bat
Artist not stated in the record
Shield with owl figure
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE
Silver Bat awarded to Tony Gwynn
Artist not stated in the record · 1997
Baseball bat used by Willie Mays
Artist not stated in the record · 1965
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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 129329 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 2026-09-02 07:07 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.