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 “Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Border Tile with Split-Palmette Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Fragment
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1873

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

Croisée Drapée à l'Antique
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

Tile From an Inscriptional Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · dated 707 AH/1308 CE

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

Border Tiles with 'Saz' Leaf Design
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Border Tile
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 16th century

Twelve-Pointed Star-Shaped Tile
Artist not stated in the record · dated 846 AH/1442–43 CE

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

Tile with Cintamani Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–70

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

Tile with Niche Design
Artist not stated in the record · dated 712 AH/1312–13 CE

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712
Corner Tile
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805-1815
Corner Tile
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · ca. 1767

Star-Shaped Tile
Artist not stated in the record · first half 15th century

Design for a Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1785-1795

Dish with Split-Leaf Palmette Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625–50

Borders
Artist not stated in the record · 17th or early 18th century
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. 81 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. 138 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 08:50 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.