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 “Painting table” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:13 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.
Painting table

Painting table

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Hall table from Shearer Cottage, by Unidentified

Hall table from Shearer Cottage

Unidentified · mid 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Sitting room with a carpet of geometric design, by McMillen, Inc.

Sitting room with a carpet of geometric design

McMillen, Inc. · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1710

Public domainThe Met
1r CAHIER DE DECORATIONS D’APPARTEMENTS, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

1r CAHIER DE DECORATIONS D’APPARTEMENTS

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779-84

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

Table

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1833–34

Public domainThe Met
British Institution, Pall Mall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

British Institution, Pall Mall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier table, by Joseph B. Barry and Son

Pier table

Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Decoration du Lambris vis-à-vis la Cheminée du Salon de Brunois, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Decoration du Lambris vis-à-vis la Cheminée du Salon de Brunois

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · 1750–75

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
Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome, by Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890

Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome

Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890 · 1845

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

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevation with a Console Table, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Console Table

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777-79

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

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevation with a Console Table, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Console Table

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center Table, by Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company

Center Table

Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · 1870–75

Public domainThe Met
Interior Wall Elevation with a Console Table, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Interior Wall Elevation with a Console Table

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779-84

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

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Wall with Painting and Consoles, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Wall with Painting and Consoles

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

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

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
The Music Room of Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn), by Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft, German, 1818 – 1894

The Music Room of Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn)

Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft, German, 1818 – 1894 · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen with landscape

Table screen with landscape

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 1008 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 65420 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-29 06:13 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.