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 “Architectural Tile with Partial Inscription” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:01 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.
Architectural Tile with Partial Inscription

Architectural Tile with Partial Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile (fragment)

Wall tile (fragment)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · dated 824 AH/1421 CE

Public domainThe Met
Gateway and Partial View of Guaranda, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Gateway and Partial View of Guaranda, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 3, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Partial Niche-Form Tile

Partial Niche-Form Tile

Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902

Tile

J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902 · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved Star Tile

Carved Star Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902

Tile

J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902 · late 19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Glazed Tile Inscription

Fragment of a Glazed Tile Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eight-Pointed Star-Shaped Tile

Eight-Pointed Star-Shaped Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Panel in the form of an Architectural Niche, by Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad Babavaih

Tile Panel in the form of an Architectural Niche

Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad Babavaih · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tiles, by Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903

Tiles

Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner Tile

Corner Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner Tile

Corner Tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Star-Shaped Tile

Star-Shaped Tile

Artist not stated in the record · first half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Niche Design

Tile with Niche Design

Artist not stated in the record · dated 712 AH/1312–13 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mihrab (Prayer Niche)

Mihrab (Prayer Niche)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 755 AH/1354–55 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th 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. 535 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 291782 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-28 01:01 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.