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. 23 shown for “Eight-pointed Star Tile with Foliage and Inscription” — 46 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Eight-pointed Star Tile with Foliage and Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · dated 663 AH/1264/65 CE

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 1301–50

Eight-Pointed Star-Shaped Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Carved Star Tile
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century
Star-Shaped Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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

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

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century
Three Tiles with 'Lajvardina' Glaze
Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th–14th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century?
Star-Shaped Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century
Star-Shaped Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Flier for “Chief Rocker Busy Bee’s Birthday”
Unidentified · October 25, 1980
Star-Shaped Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Ames Manufacturing Co. Presentation Sword & Scabbard
Ames Manufacturing Company · ca 1850

Luster Star-Shaped Tile
Artist not stated in the record · dated 608 AH/1211–12 CE
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. 74 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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 11 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:57 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.