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 “Round tea table” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:35 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.
Round tea table

Round tea table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Tea box and cover

Tea box and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Table

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1833–34

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes, by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Tea Caddy with Chinoiserie Vignettes

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · ca. 1770

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

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tea Bowl

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Tea Caddy, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Caddy

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

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

Tea

James Tissot · 1872

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
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–95

Public domainThe Met
Table round, by Unknown

Table round

Unknown · ca. 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pembroke table

Pembroke table

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

Public domainThe Met
Table round, by Unknown

Table round

Unknown · ca. 1908

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

Tea Table

Robert Harrold · 1765–75

Public domainThe Met
Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

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

Tilt-top tea table

Artist not stated in the record · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Table round, by Unknown

Table round

Unknown · ca. 1908

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
Design for Round Table "A", by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Round Table "A"

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Tea Table

Square Tea Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–60

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

Design for Round Table on Triangular Base

A.N. Davenport Co. · November 27, 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tilt-Top Table

Tilt-Top Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–75

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

Design for Round Table "A"

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. 349 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 25190 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-26 22:35 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.