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 Table, Plate 1 from, "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 15:11 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Design for Table, Plate 1 from, "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"

Design for Table, Plate 1 from, "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Design for Table, Plate 3 from "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"

Design for Table, Plate 3 from "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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

Combination table

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Design for Table, Plate 2 from "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"

Design for Table, Plate 2 from "Six Tables Grecques & Pendules"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Clock, from "Six Tables Grecques Pendules"

Design for a Clock, from "Six Tables Grecques Pendules"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Design for Serving Table with Tray and Stack of Plates Atop, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Serving Table with Tray and Stack of Plates Atop

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game table, by David Roentgen

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Album of Designs for Console Tables, Wall Brackets and Ceilings, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Album of Designs for Console Tables, Wall Brackets and Ceilings

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1720–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé), by Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt

Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)

Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Tables, Mirror Frames, Holy Water Stoups and a Clock, Plate 15 from "Nuove Inventioni d'Ornamenti", by Filippo Passerini, Italian, about 1638 – 1698

Designs for Tables, Mirror Frames, Holy Water Stoups and a Clock, Plate 15 from "Nuove Inventioni d'Ornamenti"

Filippo Passerini, Italian, about 1638 – 1698 · 1698

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table (Table mécanique), by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Table, by Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831

Design for a Table

Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval table, by David Roentgen

Oval table

David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Table, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Table

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · late 18th century

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

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Sucre de Canne (Sugar Cane) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Sucre de Canne (Sugar Cane) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

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

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Pour un Buffet, une Commode, une Table, et un Bureaux, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Pour un Buffet, une Commode, une Table, et un Bureaux

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

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

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th 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. 2279 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7083936 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-10 15:11 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.