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 “Pair of pier tables” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:16 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.
Game table, by David Roentgen

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pier Table

Design for a Pier Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center table, by Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia

Center table

Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Apartments of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, by Elizabeth Pochhammer, German, active Berlin, 1864–1880

Apartments of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin

Elizabeth Pochhammer, German, active Berlin, 1864–1880 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of pier tables

Pair of pier tables

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Pier Glasses of the Great Room and Side Board Table in Dining Room, plate VIII, in Works of Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Vol. I, 1st Edition, by Robert Adam, British, 1728–1792

Designs for Pier Glasses of the Great Room and Side Board Table in Dining Room, plate VIII, in Works of Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Vol. I, 1st Edition

Robert Adam, British, 1728–1792 · 1778

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
Design for a Pier Glass with Alternative Suggestions

Design for a Pier Glass with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bedside table (table de nuit), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Bedside table (table de nuit)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Plate 3, Developement d'un Trumeau de glace fait pour le Portugal (Design for a Pier Glass with Varation for Portugal), Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Plate 3, Developement d'un Trumeau de glace fait pour le Portugal (Design for a Pier Glass with Varation for Portugal), Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Small oval writing table (one of a pair), by Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix

Small oval writing table (one of a pair)

Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Pier table

Pier table

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1815-20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier Table, by Duncan Phyfe

Pier Table

Duncan Phyfe · 1835–40

Public domainThe Met
Design for Six-Legged Rectangular Dining Table, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Six-Legged Rectangular Dining Table

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier Table, by Joseph Meeks & Sons

Pier Table

Joseph Meeks & Sons · 1829–35

Public domainThe Met
Design for Six-Legged Round Dining Table, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Six-Legged Round Dining Table

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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
Design for a Six-Legged Rectangular Table with a Fower Vase, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for a Six-Legged Rectangular Table with a Fower Vase

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier table, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Pier table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Public domainThe Met
Plate 2, Projet d'un Trumeau de glace pour un grand cabinet fait pour le Portugal (Project for a Pier Glass for a Large Cabinet Made for Portugal), Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Plate 2, Projet d'un Trumeau de glace pour un grand cabinet fait pour le Portugal (Project for a Pier Glass for a Large Cabinet Made for Portugal), Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740–48

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
Design for Rolling Serving Table with Three Trays, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Rolling Serving Table with Three Trays

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier Table, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Pier Table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Public domainThe Met
Design for Rolling Serving Table with Two Trays, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Rolling Serving Table with Two Trays

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. 533 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. 2862839 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-31 23:16 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.