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 a Billiard Table” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 11:42 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.
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Billiard Table

Design for a Billiard Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

Table

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1833–34

Public domainThe Met
Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Détail du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détail du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century, second quarter

Public domainThe Met
Détail du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détail du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Library Table, by Herter Brothers

Library Table

Herter Brothers · 1879–82

Public domainThe Met
Détails de la Menuiserie du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détails de la Menuiserie du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détails du Billard de 11 Pieds

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Console table, by Richard de Lalonde

Console table

Richard de Lalonde · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Coupes du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Coupes du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table, by Charles Lebrun

Side table

Charles Lebrun · ca. 1685

Public domainThe Met
Détails de la Menuiserie du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Détails de la Menuiserie du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

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

Combination table

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Coupes du Billard, by Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792

Coupes du Billard

Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center Table, by Anthony G. Quervelle

Center Table

Anthony G. Quervelle · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Détails d’une salle de Billiard Chinois construite à Belle Ville pour Mr. Cochin, Inspecteur general des ports de Mer par Mandar, Architecte et Ing…en Chef des ponts et Chaussées, by Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833

Détails d’une salle de Billiard Chinois construite à Belle Ville pour Mr. Cochin, Inspecteur general des ports de Mer par Mandar, Architecte et Ing…en Chef des ponts et Chaussées

Jean-Charles Krafft, French, 1764 - 1833 · 1812

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. 940 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2096871 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 11:42 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.