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 “Side table” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:16 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.
Side Table

Side Table

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Side Table

Design for a Side Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Long Side Table

Long Side Table

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Side Table, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Design for a Side Table

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table, by John Wildsmith

Side table

John Wildsmith · table top 1759, base 1794

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Side Table with a Floral Bouquet, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Design for a Side Table with a Floral Bouquet

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

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
Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (commode servante or commode desserte), by Jean Henri Riesener

Side table (commode servante or commode desserte)

Jean Henri Riesener · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Side table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Side table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table

Side table

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls, by Unidentified

Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls

Unidentified · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table, by Charles Lebrun

Side table

Charles Lebrun · ca. 1685

Public domainThe Met
Decoration de Lambris pour un Cabinet (Decoration for Panelling for an Office), by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Decoration de Lambris pour un Cabinet (Decoration for Panelling for an Office)

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1695–1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table, by Robert Adam

Side table

Robert Adam · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Petit-Pied ou Caise a Banquets. Table Ronde avec Tablette au dessous, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Petit-Pied ou Caise a Banquets. Table Ronde avec Tablette au dessous

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

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

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
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (mostly)

Public domainThe Met
Petit-Pied ou Caise a Bouquets. Table Ronde avec Tablette au dessous, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Petit-Pied ou Caise a Bouquets. Table Ronde avec Tablette au dessous

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 19th or first decade of 20th century (with earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Photograph, by Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

Photograph

Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century, second quarter

Public domainThe Met
Console table

Console table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

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. 688 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. 130330 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-28 01:16 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.