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 “Sideboard” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:37 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.
Sideboard, by Alexander Roux

Sideboard

Alexander Roux · ca. 1853

Public domainThe Met
"Jackson" Sideboard, by A.N. Davenport Co.

"Jackson" Sideboard

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard

Sideboard

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795–1805

Public domainThe Met
Design for Oak Corner Sideboard, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Oak Corner Sideboard

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard, by Nathan Lombard

Sideboard

Nathan Lombard · 1795–1800

Public domainThe Met
Design for Four-Door Sideboard in Elevation and Plan, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Four-Door Sideboard in Elevation and Plan

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard Table, by Thomas Seymour

Sideboard Table

Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard with Pitcher and Punch Bowl Atop, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Pitcher and Punch Bowl Atop

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard Table

Sideboard Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard of Dark Oak, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard of Dark Oak

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard, also known as the Pericles Dressoir, by Bruce J. Talbert

Sideboard, also known as the Pericles Dressoir

Bruce J. Talbert · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard with Brass Rail and Brass Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Brass Rail and Brass Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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

Sideboard Table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1812–19

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard of Mahogany and Inlay, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard of Mahogany and Inlay

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard Table

Sideboard Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1877–80

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard with Nine Drawers, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Nine Drawers

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard Table

Sideboard Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Design in Three Views for Mahogany and Inlay Sideboard, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design in Three Views for Mahogany and Inlay Sideboard

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard dish, by Lewis Mettayer

Sideboard dish

Lewis Mettayer · 1717/18

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard of Mahogany with Three Drawers, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard of Mahogany with Three Drawers

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Gothic Sideboard, by Charles Hindley and Sons

Design for Gothic Sideboard

Charles Hindley and Sons · 1841–84

Public domainThe Met
Design for Sideboard with Serpentine Front and Six Legs, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Sideboard with Serpentine Front and Six Legs

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard Table, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II, by Thomas Chippendale

Sideboard Table, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale · 1753

Public domainThe Met
Design for Six-legged Sideboard with Rounded Front and Four Drawers, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Six-legged Sideboard with Rounded Front and Four Drawers

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. 136 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. 85 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-01 20:37 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.