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 cover with fringe” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:36 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 cover with fringe

Table cover with fringe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Illustrious Sons of Ireland, by Schile, Henry

Illustrious Sons of Ireland

Schile, Henry · ca 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table cover with fringe

Table cover with fringe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgy Willets

Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgy Willets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game table, by David Roentgen

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Table runner, by Unknown

Table runner

Unknown · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Demidoff Table, by Lorenzo Bartolini

The Demidoff Table

Lorenzo Bartolini · 1845

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Flora's Retinue: Lily, by Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915

Flora's Retinue: Lily

Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915 · ca. 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar covers in Chaplain Kit used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley

Altar covers in Chaplain Kit used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley

Artist not stated in the record · 1939-1944

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. 606 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 273357 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-08 09:36 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.