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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tile with Image of Phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Circular tile with design of phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Tile
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

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

Tile
Trenton Tile Works · 1884

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

Ewer in the Form of a Phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 15th–16th century

Floor tile
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Tile
United States Encaustic Tile Company · 1877–85

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

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

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

Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Tile decorated with birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Allegories of the Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Allegories of the Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tile with a bust of William III (1650–1702)
Adrianus Kocx · ca. 1694

Allegories of the Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 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.