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 “Joined table with drawer” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:41 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.
Joined table with drawer

Joined table with drawer

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1710

Public domainThe Met
Design for Writing Table #42018 of Mahogany, Decorated in Color, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Writing Table #42018 of Mahogany, Decorated in Color

A.N. Davenport Co. · January 24, 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Pierre Gole

Table

Pierre Gole · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Design for Semi-Circular Writing Table with Brass Railing, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Semi-Circular Writing Table with Brass Railing

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Design for Semi-Circular Writing Table with Brass Railing, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Semi-Circular Writing Table with Brass Railing

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard Table, by Thomas Seymour

Sideboard Table

Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

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
Pembroke table

Pembroke table

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

Public domainThe Met
Design for Writing Table with Massive Reeded Legs, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Writing Table with Massive Reeded Legs

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Project for Tables; Sketches for Chests of Drawers and Possibly Frieze Stand, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Project for Tables; Sketches for Chests of Drawers and Possibly Frieze Stand

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Combination table, by Martin Carlin

Combination table

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Design for Serving Table with Columnar Front Legs and Two Drawers, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Serving Table with Columnar Front Legs and Two Drawers

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Console table with chest of drawers, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Console table with chest of drawers

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table, by Joseph Baumhauer

Writing table

Joseph Baumhauer · ca. 1760–65

Public domainThe Met
Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Pear-Shaped Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Pear-Shaped Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small table

Small table

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century, partly, with later replacements and additions

Public domainThe Met
Design for Side Serving Table with two shelves adorned by two Corinthian- column front supports on a two-drawer base, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Side Serving Table with two shelves adorned by two Corinthian- column front supports on a two-drawer base

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barberini Cabinet, by Galleria dei Lavori, Florence

Barberini Cabinet

Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Public domainThe Met
Design for Rectangular Writing Table with Six Drawers, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Rectangular Writing Table with Six Drawers

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval table, by David Roentgen

Oval table

David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Public domainThe Met
Design for Serving Table with Four Drawers on Ball and Claw Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Serving Table with Four Drawers on Ball and Claw Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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. 195 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 257044 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 19:41 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.