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 “Bureau dressing table” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:25 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.
Bureau dressing table

Bureau dressing table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, KS: Dressing Table and Chair for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir, by Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959

Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, KS: Dressing Table and Chair for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir

Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing table

Dressing table

Artist not stated in the record · 1710–30

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Mechanical Dressing and Writing Tables

Designs for Mechanical Dressing and Writing Tables

Artist not stated in the record · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing glass, by Thomas Seymour

Dressing glass

Thomas Seymour · 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Mechanical Furniture: Wardrobe, Desk and Dressing Table

Designs for Mechanical Furniture: Wardrobe, Desk and Dressing Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bureau table

Bureau table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Dressing Table and Mirror, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas, by Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959

Dressing Table and Mirror, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas

Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing Table

Dressing Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–50

Public domainThe Met
Petite Commode en Toilette, Demie Toilette à Pieds de Biche, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Petite Commode en Toilette, Demie Toilette à Pieds de Biche

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing table, by George A. Schastey

Dressing table

George A. Schastey · 1881–82

Public domainThe Met
Carriage Dress, by Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834

Carriage Dress

Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834 · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing table

Dressing table

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
Petite Commode en Toilette, Demie Toilette à Pieds de Biche, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Petite Commode en Toilette, Demie Toilette à Pieds de Biche

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing table

Dressing table

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for Mechanical Furniture: Dressing Table and Bookcase

Design for Mechanical Furniture: Dressing Table and Bookcase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing table

Dressing table

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of two unidentified women in black dresses by J.P. Ball & Son

Cabinet card of two unidentified women in black dresses by J.P. Ball & Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dressing Table

Dressing Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1810

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling, by François Etienne Villeret, French, ca. 1800 - 1866

Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling

François Etienne Villeret, French, ca. 1800 - 1866 · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Combination table, by Martin Carlin

Combination table

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Young Girl in a Hat, Standing on Chair by Table), by Unidentified

Untitled (Young Girl in a Hat, Standing on Chair by Table)

Unidentified · 1850s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Print

Print

Artist not stated in the record · About 1720

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. 379 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. 266632 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-03 06:25 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.