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. 16 shown for “Folding Table” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 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.
Folding Table

Folding Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1508, with later restorations

Public domainThe Met
Metamorphic library table-steps, by Thomas Sheraton, English, 1751 - 1806

Metamorphic library table-steps

Thomas Sheraton, English, 1751 - 1806 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding table

Folding table

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–85

Public domainThe Met
A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome, by Joseph-Eugène Lacroix, French, 1814 - 1873

A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome

Joseph-Eugène Lacroix, French, 1814 - 1873 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding card table (table de jeu brisée en angle), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Folding card table (table de jeu brisée en angle)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755–65

Public domainThe Met
Singer treadle sewing machine cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Singer treadle sewing machine cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding table

Folding table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford, by Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford

Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Folding table knife

Folding table knife

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Folding table fork

Folding table fork

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Folding table fork

Folding table fork

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
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
Folding Harpsichord

Folding Harpsichord

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)

Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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. 117 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 19527 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 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.