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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vase with cover
William De Morgan · 1888–98

William Frend De Morgan
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · July 21, 1908

Charger
William De Morgan · 1882–88

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

Plate
William De Morgan · ca. 1890–1907

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

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

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

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

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

Hippopotamus ("William")
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.

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

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

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

Saint Benedict
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1640–45

Ulysses S. Grant and Staff
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1865

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Sitta carolinensis carolinensis
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1895

The Louis XV Room
Jean-François Roumier · ca. 1720–25, with later additions

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

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

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

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

James Morgan Bradford
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804
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.