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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Glazed pottery tile revetment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

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

Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Tile
Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942 · 1913

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

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

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

Tile
Paul Revere Pottery, American, 1908 - 1942 · 1910

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

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · probably 18th century

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

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Tile
Sadler and Green, English · 1760

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

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 1620–40

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · 1640–60
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.