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. 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

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.
Offering table from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I

Offering table from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Offering table

Offering table

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

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mat (from a set of table linens)

Mat (from a set of table linens)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mat (from a set of table linens)

Mat (from a set of table linens)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Table mat, by Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1896–1926

Table mat

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table snuffbox, by Jacques de Lajoüe

Table snuffbox

Jacques de Lajoüe · ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Silver Moth, by Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework, Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1896–1926

Silver Moth

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armenian Manuscript Bifolium, by Illuminator Minas (?)

Armenian Manuscript Bifolium

Illuminator Minas (?) · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Mat Weight in the Shape of a Doe

Mat Weight in the Shape of a Doe

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
La soupe à la chambrée, from "L'Estampe Moderne", by Jacques Baseilhac

La soupe à la chambrée, from "L'Estampe Moderne"

Jacques Baseilhac · 1898

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Table of the Antichrist

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Table of the Antichrist

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Occasional Table, by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Design for an Occasional Table

Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1770–85

Public domainThe Met
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. 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.