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. 16 shown for “Bureau Table” — 61 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:39 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bureau table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Account of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 26, 1815

Bureau Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–65

Coiling machine
Benjamin R. Stickney · 1920-1959 (BEP)

Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert · 1759

Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780
Bureau Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–90

Table Design with Vases
Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

Bureau table (desk)
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–60

Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685

Bureau dressing table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Bureau table
John Townsend · ca. 1765

Writing table (part of a set)
Joseph Baumhauer · ca. 1770

Bureau Tables, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II
Thomas Chippendale · 1753

Bureau Tables, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II
Thomas Chippendale · 1753

Writing table (bureau plat)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1750
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. 21 matched · 21 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. 245673 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 04:39 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.