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 “Astragal-end Work Table” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Astragal-end Work Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1805–15

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Table
Pierre Gole · ca. 1660

Table runner
Unknown · ca. 1912

Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Table cover
Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association · ca. 1900

Work Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Table runner
Unknown · ca. 1910

Work Table
Duncan Phyfe · 1810–20

Table runner
Unknown · ca. 1905

Work Table
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1820–50

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Center table
John Henry Belter · ca. 1855

Table runner
Unknown · ca. 1910

Game Table
Thomas Day · ca. 1850

Table runner
Unknown · ca. 1910

Center Table
Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · 1870–75

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Table runner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

Center table
Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
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. 1242 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. 136 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-31 21:40 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.