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 screen with landscape” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:13 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 frontal

Table frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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
Woman at her Toilette, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Woman at her Toilette

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

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

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Bag

Bag

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Figures in a Landscape, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Figures in a Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Child Eating and the Sunset, Hudson, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketch of a Child Eating and the Sunset, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 22, 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Niagara Falls Winter Views, Table Rock, Canada Side, by Frederic and William Langenheim

Niagara Falls Winter Views, Table Rock, Canada Side

Frederic and William Langenheim · 1850–54

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with the Chinese Literati Su Shi and Tao Qian, by Nagasawa Rosetsu

Landscapes with the Chinese Literati Su Shi and Tao Qian

Nagasawa Rosetsu · 1795–99

Public domainThe Met
Winter, Niagara Falls, Table Rock, Canada Side, by Frederic and William Langenheim

Winter, Niagara Falls, Table Rock, Canada Side

Frederic and William Langenheim · 1855

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
Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right]., by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right].

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Unterschiedlich Augspurgische Goldschmidts Arbeit, "Autumnus", Plate 3, by Abraham Drentwet, German, 1647 – 1727

Unterschiedlich Augspurgische Goldschmidts Arbeit, "Autumnus", Plate 3

Abraham Drentwet, German, 1647 – 1727 · 1721–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival, by Ike no Taiga

Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival

Ike no Taiga · ca. 1763

Public domainThe Met
Three Cows on a Road in the Woods, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Three Cows on a Road in the Woods

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1844–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Table Design with Vases, by Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716

Table Design with Vases

Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th 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. 368 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 5313935 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 22:13 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.