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. 18 shown for “Glazed pottery tile revetment” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 02:42 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

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Glazed pottery tile revetment

Glazed pottery tile revetment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

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

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917

Tile

William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917 · ca. 1888–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942

Tile

Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942 · 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917

Tile

William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917 · mid-19th–early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942

Tile

Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942 · 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile, by Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908

Tile

Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · probably 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908

Tile

Grueby Faience Company, Revere, Massachusetts, 1895–1908 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by Sadler and Green, English

Tile

Sadler and Green, English · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 1620–40

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–60

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. 966 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. 29897 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 02:42 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.