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 “William De Morgan” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:34 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.
Vase with cover, by William De Morgan

Vase with cover

William De Morgan · 1888–98

Public domainThe Met
William Frend De Morgan, by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966

William Frend De Morgan

Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · July 21, 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charger, by William De Morgan

Charger

William De Morgan · 1882–88

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
Plate, by William De Morgan

Plate

William De Morgan · ca. 1890–1907

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

Jar

William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917 · ca. 1888–97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

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

Tile

William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917 · ca. 1888–98

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

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
Hippopotamus ("William")

Hippopotamus ("William")

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

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

Tile

William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917 · 1882–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

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

Platter

William Frend De Morgan, British, 1839–1917 · 1888–98

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Benedict, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Saint Benedict

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1640–45

Public domainThe Met
Ulysses S. Grant and Staff, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

Ulysses S. Grant and Staff

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Sitta carolinensis carolinensis

Sitta carolinensis carolinensis

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Louis XV Room, by Jean-François Roumier

The Louis XV Room

Jean-François Roumier · ca. 1720–25, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
David Bannister Morgan, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

David Bannister Morgan

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin R. Morgan, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Benjamin R. Morgan

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
James Morgan Bradford, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

James Morgan Bradford

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

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. 9062 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 868557 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 15:34 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.