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. 20 shown for “Drop-leaf dining table” — 41 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:12 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.
Drop-leaf Dining Table

Drop-leaf Dining Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1810

Public domainThe Met
Dining room table from the home of Lucinda Todd, by Unidentified

Dining room table from the home of Lucinda Todd

Unidentified · early to mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf dining table

Drop-leaf dining table

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1810

Public domainThe Met
Design for Square Dining Table on Animal Paw Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Square Dining Table on Animal Paw Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf dining table, by John Townsend

Drop-leaf dining table

John Townsend · 1756

Public domainThe Met
Design for Rectangular Dining Table "B", by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Rectangular Dining Table "B"

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf Dining Table

Drop-leaf Dining Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for Oval Dining Table "B" of Mahogany, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Oval Dining Table "B" of Mahogany

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf Dining Table

Drop-leaf Dining Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Round Four-Legged Dining Table with Bun-Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for a Round Four-Legged Dining Table with Bun-Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf Dining Table

Drop-leaf Dining Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1755–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for Round Dining Table on Carved Bracket Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Round Dining Table on Carved Bracket Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf Dining Table

Drop-leaf Dining Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Rectangular Dining Table on Ball-Shaped Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for a Rectangular Dining Table on Ball-Shaped Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf Dining Table

Drop-leaf Dining Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–90

Public domainThe Met
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 19th or first decade of 20th century (with earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, leaf & wheat motif

Bouquet holder, leaf & wheat motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf Table

Drop-leaf Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1800

Public domainThe Met
Drop-leaf Pembroke Table, by John Townsend

Drop-leaf Pembroke Table

John Townsend · ca. 1795

Public domainThe Met
Dining Table, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Dining Table

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1800–1825

Public domainThe Met
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. 337 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 8 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 22:12 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.