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 “Square Wall Tile” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Square Wall Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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

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

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

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

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

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

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Tile
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

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

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

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

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

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Ceiling paper
Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York · 1905–1915

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

Sidewall
Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · ca. 1900

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

Worsham-Rockefeller House
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1915
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. 1084 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. 40217 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 04:01 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.