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 “Octagonal tea table” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:30 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.
Octagonal tea table

Octagonal tea table

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1825

Public domainThe Met
Design for Rectangular Dining Table on Octagonal Base, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Rectangular Dining Table on Octagonal Base

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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

Table

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea, by James Tissot

Tea

James Tissot · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Design for Round Adjustable Dining Table on Octagonal Base, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Round Adjustable Dining Table on Octagonal Base

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Octagonal table

Octagonal table

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800 - 1810

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

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Design for Round Dining Table on Octagonal Base, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Round Dining Table on Octagonal Base

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small octagonal table

Small octagonal table

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Design for Dark Oak Dining Room Table, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Dark Oak Dining Room Table

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Table Sketches, Florence, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Table Sketches, Florence, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–95

Public domainThe Met
Center table, by F. Barbedienne Foundry, French, 1838 – 1952

Center table

F. Barbedienne Foundry, French, 1838 – 1952 · 1855–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pembroke table

Pembroke table

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

Public domainThe Met
Design for Dining Table "B" of Mahogany, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Dining Table "B" of Mahogany

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Table, by Robert Harrold

Tea Table

Robert Harrold · 1765–75

Public domainThe Met
Design for Oak Round Table and Chair, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Oak Round Table and Chair

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round tea table

Round tea table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Round Extension Table, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for a Round Extension Table

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tilt-top tea table

Tilt-top tea table

Artist not stated in the record · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Design for Tea Table with Brass Railing Along Back of Upper Shelf, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Tea Table with Brass Railing Along Back of Upper Shelf

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. 150 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 15276 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 08:30 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.