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 “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

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.
Astragal-end Work Table

Astragal-end Work Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1805–15

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Pierre Gole

Table

Pierre Gole · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

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

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Table cover, by Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association

Table cover

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Work Table

Work Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Work Table, by Duncan Phyfe

Work Table

Duncan Phyfe · 1810–20

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Work Table, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Work Table

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

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center table, by John Henry Belter

Center table

John Henry Belter · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game Table, by Thomas Day

Game Table

Thomas Day · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center Table, by Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company

Center Table

Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · 1870–75

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Table runner

Table runner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center table, by Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia

Center table

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

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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. 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.