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 “Egyptian Revival Table Cover” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:53 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.
Egyptian Revival Table Cover

Egyptian Revival Table Cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center Table, by Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company

Center Table

Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · 1870–75

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling, by François Etienne Villeret, French, ca. 1800 - 1866

Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling

François Etienne Villeret, French, ca. 1800 - 1866 · 1848

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

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of an Official

Bust of an Official

Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Second Empire Salon, by Unknown, French

Second Empire Salon

Unknown, French · 1850–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Sitting Room with a Writing Table, by Wilhelm Amandus Beer, 1837 – 1907

A Sitting Room with a Writing Table

Wilhelm Amandus Beer, 1837 – 1907 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Purse with Egyptian ornament, by Sloan & Company

Purse with Egyptian ornament

Sloan & Company · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal table

Hexagonal table

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Bourgeois Biedermeier Interior, by R. Haes

Design for a Bourgeois Biedermeier Interior

R. Haes · 1853–58

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Apartments of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, by Elizabeth Pochhammer, German, active Berlin, 1864–1880

Apartments of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin

Elizabeth Pochhammer, German, active Berlin, 1864–1880 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dismantled Coffin of Khety

Dismantled Coffin of Khety

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1800 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tablecloth

Tablecloth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Piano, by Robert Nunns

Square Piano

Robert Nunns · 1853

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Looking Glass and Console Table

Design for a Looking Glass and Console Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Annibale Carracci

The Coronation of the Virgin

Annibale Carracci · after 1595

Public domainThe Met
Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

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. 50 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 49667 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-08 10:53 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.