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 with Image of Phoenix” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:37 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

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

Tile
J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902 · late 19th–early 20th century

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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

Tile with an Image of a Prince on Horseback
Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

Tile
J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902 · late 19th–early 20th century

Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

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

Garden Gathering
Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

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

Magical Stela with Horus the Child
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Tile with 'Saz' Leaf Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545–55

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Landscapes with poems
Gong Xian · 1688

Tile panel
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Tile Panel in the form of an Architectural Niche
Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad Babavaih · first half 14th century

Tile with Quatrefoil Design
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · 1880–1890

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Tile with Quatrefoil Design
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · 1880–90
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. 271 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 7484570 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 12:37 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.