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 “Circular tile with design of phoenix” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:12 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.
Tile with Image of Phoenix

Tile with Image of Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Circular tile with design of phoenix

Circular tile with design of phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

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

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile, by Trenton Tile Works

Tile

Trenton Tile Works · 1884

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
Ewer in the Form of a Phoenix

Ewer in the Form of a Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Floor tile

Floor tile

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by United States Encaustic Tile Company

Tile

United States Encaustic Tile Company · 1877–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

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

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall and border, by M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834

Sidewall and border

M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834 · 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Hanging

Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Wall tile

Wall tile

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile decorated with birds and flowers

Tile decorated with birds and flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with a bust of William III (1650–1702), by Adrianus Kocx

Tile with a bust of William III (1650–1702)

Adrianus Kocx · ca. 1694

Public domainThe Met
Allegories of the Four Continents

Allegories of the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 1408 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. 2901212 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 15:12 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.