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 09:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Folding Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1508, with later restorations

Metamorphic library table-steps
Thomas Sheraton, English, 1751 - 1806 · ca. 1795

Folding table
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–85

A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome
Joseph-Eugène Lacroix, French, 1814 - 1873 · 1835

Folding card table (table de jeu brisée en angle)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755–65

Singer treadle sewing machine cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Folding table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford
Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1856

Card table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Folding table knife
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Folding table fork
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Folding table fork
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685

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

Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert · 1759

Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
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 09:19 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.