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. 18 shown for “Table mat” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Offering table from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Offering table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1850 B.C.

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1886

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Mat (from a set of table linens)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Table mat
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Mat (from a set of table linens)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Table mat
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1896–1926 · ca. 1910

Table snuffbox
Jacques de Lajoüe · ca. 1745–50

Silver Moth
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1896–1926 · ca. 1910

Armenian Manuscript Bifolium
Illuminator Minas (?) · 15th century

Mat Weight in the Shape of a Doe
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

La soupe à la chambrée, from "L'Estampe Moderne"
Jacques Baseilhac · 1898

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Table of the Antichrist
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Design for an Occasional Table
Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1770–85
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. 62 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 18806 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 11:09 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.