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. 17 shown for “Two-Colored Tile” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:22 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.
Two-Colored Tile

Two-Colored Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois, by Edbrooke & Burnham, American, 1879 - 1892

Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois

Edbrooke & Burnham, American, 1879 - 1892 · 1891-1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Colored Tile

Two-Colored Tile

Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Public domainThe Met
Worsham-Rockefeller House

Worsham-Rockefeller House

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Colored Tile

Two-Colored Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Church Domes, Colombia or Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Church Domes, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1853 or 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Colored Tile

Two-Colored Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Rookwood, by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967

Rookwood

Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1903–13

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-Colored Tile

Two-Colored Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it

Scrapbook fragment with five pictures adhered to it

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two-Colored Heraldic Tile

Two-Colored Heraldic Tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Two-Colored Tile with Arms of the Beauchamp Family

Two-Colored Tile with Arms of the Beauchamp Family

Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Two-Colored Tile with arms of England

Two-Colored Tile with arms of England

Artist not stated in the record · 14th or 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Public domainThe Met
Tiles with the devices of Claude d'Urfé, by Masséot Abaquesne

Tiles with the devices of Claude d'Urfé

Masséot Abaquesne · ca. 1557–60

Public domainThe Met
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. 305 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. 306 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 03:22 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.