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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mat (from a set of table linens)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Mat (from a set of table linens)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Table
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1833–34

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

Table
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1886

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

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

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford
Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1856
![The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fes%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42913-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

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

Card table (from a large set)
Giles Grendey · ca. 1735–40

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170

Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
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.