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. 23 shown for “Table screen” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 10:13 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 screen with landscape

Table screen with landscape

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Table screen and stand

Table screen and stand

Artist not stated in the record · probably 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen with figures in landscape

Table screen with figures in landscape

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Silhouette Machine, by Rudolph Schellenburg, 1740 - 1806

Silhouette Machine

Rudolph Schellenburg, 1740 - 1806 · c. 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen with the gathering in the Western Garden

Table screen with the gathering in the Western Garden

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen with Bodhidharma and landscape of Jinshan Island

Table screen with Bodhidharma and landscape of Jinshan Island

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Metamorphic library table-steps, by Thomas Sheraton, English, 1751 - 1806

Metamorphic library table-steps

Thomas Sheraton, English, 1751 - 1806 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen

Table screen

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

Public domainThe Met
table

table

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen

Table screen

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Table de Cabinet., 6th Plate [Study for a Table], pl. 47 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Table de Cabinet., 6th Plate [Study for a Table], pl. 47 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table Screen

Table Screen

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls, by Unidentified

Marble-top table from the home of Robert Smalls

Unidentified · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen

Table screen

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Table screen

Table screen

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Hall table from Shearer Cottage, by Unidentified

Hall table from Shearer Cottage

Unidentified · mid 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen

Table screen

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Console Table, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Console Table

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table Screen

Table Screen

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Design for Mechanical Furniture: Tables

Design for Mechanical Furniture: Tables

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table Screen

Table Screen

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Billiard Table

Design for a Billiard Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

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. 92 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 5188657 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-10 10:13 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.