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 “Design for Chest with Drawers” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:45 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.
Apothecary Cabinet, by Nicolaus I Kolb

Apothecary Cabinet

Nicolaus I Kolb · 1617–18

Public domainThe Met
Design for Chest with Drawers

Design for Chest with Drawers

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Design for Chest with Drawers

Design for Chest with Drawers

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Charles Cressent

Commode

Charles Cressent · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Commodes

Designs for Commodes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Melchior Baumgartner

Cabinet

Melchior Baumgartner · ca. 1655–59, engraved decorations ca. 1825–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for Chest of Drawers in Mahogany with Neo-Classical Motifs, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Chest of Drawers in Mahogany with Neo-Classical Motifs

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest with drawer, by Robert Crosman

Chest with drawer

Robert Crosman · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Elévation et Profil d'un Commode ceintrée, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elévation et Profil d'un Commode ceintrée

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk (bonheur du jour)

Desk (bonheur du jour)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Commode en Pied de Biche avec son Profil, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Commode en Pied de Biche avec son Profil

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest, by the Searle-Dennis shop tradition

Chest

the Searle-Dennis shop tradition · 1685–1700

Public domainThe Met
Elévation et Profil d'un Commode ceintrée, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elévation et Profil d'un Commode ceintrée

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea chest, by Abraham Roentgen

Tea chest

Abraham Roentgen · ca. 1750–55

Public domainThe Met
Commode en Pied de Biche avec son Profil, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Commode en Pied de Biche avec son Profil

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

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

Blanket Chest

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1835–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chest of Drawers

Design for a Chest of Drawers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flower-Style Box with Drawers

Flower-Style Box with Drawers

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chest of Drawers

Design for a Chest of Drawers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
High Chest of Drawers

High Chest of Drawers

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Chests of Drawers, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for Two Chests of Drawers

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest of drawers

Chest of drawers

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

Public domainThe Met
Project for Tables; Sketches for Chests of Drawers and Possibly Frieze Stand, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Project for Tables; Sketches for Chests of Drawers and Possibly Frieze Stand

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

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. 438 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. 638635 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 10:45 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.