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. 12 shown for “Design for Mechanical Furniture: Tables” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:18 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for Mechanical Furniture: Tables

Design for Mechanical Furniture: Tables

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Design for Mechanical Furniture: Half-Round Writing Table

Design for Mechanical Furniture: Half-Round Writing Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Designs for Furniture, by André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732

Designs for Furniture

André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732 · ca. 1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for a Mechanical Desk and Sewing Table

Designs for a Mechanical Desk and Sewing Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Furniture, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for Furniture

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Mechanical Furniture: Cabinet and Desk

Designs for Mechanical Furniture: Cabinet and Desk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Mechanical Furniture: Secretary Desk

Design for Mechanical Furniture: Secretary Desk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Table, Hounds, by William Hunt Diederich, American, b. Hungary, 1884–1953

Design for Table, Hounds

William Hunt Diederich, American, b. Hungary, 1884–1953 · ca. 1916

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 516985 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 23:18 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.