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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 “Designs for a Mechanical Desk and Sewing Table” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63
Designs for a Mechanical Desk and Sewing Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1805
Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781
Design for Mechanical Furniture: Tables
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805
Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80
Designs for Mechanical Furniture: Wardrobe, Desk and Dressing Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Interior with a Curtained Bed Alcove
Unknown, Austrian · ca. 1853
Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79
The Music Room of Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn)
Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft, German, 1818 – 1894 · 1849
Library Table
Herter Brothers · 1879–82
Designs for a Desk and a Table
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789
Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83
Design for Mechanical Furniture: Secretary Desk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805
Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881
Designs for Mechanical Furniture: Cabinet and Desk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805
Astronomical table clock
Jeremias Metzger · 1568
Cupboard, table, writing desk
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809
Sideboard Table
Thomas Seymour · 1805–10
Designs for Mechanical Furniture: Bookcase and Shelf Desk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805
Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685
Marian Sewing
Mary A. Hallock Foote, American, 1847–1938 · 1883
Marble-top table
Theophil Hansen · ca. 1855–65
Design for Mechanical Furniture: Desk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805
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. 87 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2816202 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 21:41 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.