OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Tile with Image of Phoenix

Tile with Image of Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Circular tile with design of phoenix

Circular tile with design of phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer in the Form of a Phoenix

Ewer in the Form of a Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902

Tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with an Image of a Prince on Horseback

Tile with an Image of a Prince on Horseback

Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J.G. & J.F. Low Art Tile Works, 1883 – 1902

Tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)

Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)

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

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile with 'Saz' Leaf Design

Tile with 'Saz' Leaf Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545–55

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

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

Public domainThe Met
Wall facing

Wall facing

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with poems, by Gong Xian

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Tile panel

Tile panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile Panel in the form of an Architectural Niche, by Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad Babavaih

Tile Panel in the form of an Architectural Niche

Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Ahmad Babavaih · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile with Quatrefoil Design, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Tile with Quatrefoil Design

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · 1880–1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile with Quatrefoil Design, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933

Tile with Quatrefoil Design

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · 1880–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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.