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 “Folding table fork” — 64 records examined, 29 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 fork

Folding table fork

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Folding Fork with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding table fork

Folding table fork

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork with Damascened Floral Handle, by FGS

Folding Fork with Damascened Floral Handle

FGS · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fork

Fork

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Table

Folding Table

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

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Fork From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding table

Folding table

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–85

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork with Engraved Decoration From Traveling Cutlery Set

Folding Fork with Engraved Decoration From Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

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
Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork (Part of Traveling Cultery Set)

Folding Fork (Part of Traveling Cultery Set)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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 Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Harpsichord

Folding Harpsichord

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

Public domainThe Met
Folding Fork with Attachable Spoon Bowl

Folding Fork with Attachable Spoon Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Fork from Folding Cutlery Set

Fork from Folding Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)

Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Folding Cutlery Set

Folding Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
fork, table

fork, table

Artist not stated in the record

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. 211 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. 41086 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-06 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.