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 “Table Tray (Tsuigasane)” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:21 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.
Table Tray (Tsuigasane)

Table Tray (Tsuigasane)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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
Teakettle, lamp, and table, by Simon Pantin I

Teakettle, lamp, and table

Simon Pantin I · 1724–25

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
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Design for Serving Table with Tray and Stack of Plates Atop, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Serving Table with Tray and Stack of Plates Atop

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eating and work table (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Eating and work table (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · Trays: ca. 1761; table: ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Surtout de Table (Centerpiece)

Design for a Surtout de Table (Centerpiece)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eating and work table (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Eating and work table (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1763, lower tray after 1851

Public domainThe Met
Design for Oak Serving Table, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Oak Serving Table

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray

Tray

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Serving Table on Wheels, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Serving Table on Wheels

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table centerpiece, by Johann Jakob Adam

Table centerpiece

Johann Jakob Adam · 1765–67

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Low Table or Stand

Low Table or Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Entertaining Three Angels, by John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812

Abraham Entertaining Three Angels

John Chamberlaine, English, 1745 - 1812 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adjustable reading and writing table (pupitre à crémaillère, servant de table), by Martin Carlin

Adjustable reading and writing table (pupitre à crémaillère, servant de table)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1760–65

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

Design for Rolling Serving Table with Two Legs

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestand and holder (guéridon), by Martin Carlin

Candlestand and holder (guéridon)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1730–85

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Liqueurs (Liqueurs) for the Services des Objets des Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Liqueurs (Liqueurs) for the Services des Objets des Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crown on a Table, Lacquer Tray with Young Pine and Fan, by Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

Crown on a Table, Lacquer Tray with Young Pine and Fan

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Hall stand, by Coalbrookdale Company, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, founded 1709

Hall stand

Coalbrookdale Company, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, founded 1709 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea tray (Plateau), by The Muses Master

Tea tray (Plateau)

The Muses Master · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for a Beverage

Advertisement for a Beverage

Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 60 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 15020 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-03 10:21 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.