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 “Mat (from a set of table linens)” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 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.
Mat (from a set of table linens)

Mat (from a set of table linens)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mat (from a set of table linens)

Mat (from a set of table linens)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

Table

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1833–34

Public domainThe Met
Table mat, by Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1896–1926

Table mat

Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1896–1926 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Adam Weisweiler

Table

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Silver Moth, by Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1896–1926

Silver Moth

Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1896–1926 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

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
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

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

Public domainThe Met
Table mat, by Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association

Table mat

Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table (from a large set), by Giles Grendey

Card table (from a large set)

Giles Grendey · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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. 982 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3937788 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-02 13:20 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.