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 “Tile inlay fragment” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:15 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 inlay fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Wooden Inlay Fragment Created By Peter Glass
Glass, Peter · Late 19th C.

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tile Inlay depicting a Wig
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tile Inlay Depicting a Torso
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tile Inlay of a Torso
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Inlay fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Tile/tile fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 1228 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 43391 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 00:15 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.