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 with Decoration of a Landscape” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:01 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of two unidentified women in black dresses by J.P. Ball & Son

Cabinet card of two unidentified women in black dresses by J.P. Ball & Son

Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900

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
Design for an Interior

Design for an Interior

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table, by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

Table

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin · ca. 1833–34

Public domainThe Met
L’HORLOGERIE / LA GRAVÛRE

L’HORLOGERIE / LA GRAVÛRE

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–80

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
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife with Porcelain Handle

Knife with Porcelain Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (mostly)

Public domainThe Met
LE JEU DE LA GOBILLE / LE CHÂTEAU DE CARTES, by François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755

LE JEU DE LA GOBILLE / LE CHÂTEAU DE CARTES

François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century, second quarter

Public domainThe Met
Wall with Painting and Consoles, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Wall with Painting and Consoles

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table with Decoration of a Landscape

Table with Decoration of a Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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, by Pierre Gole

Table

Pierre Gole · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii

Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
China table, by Thomas Chippendale

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet, Console Table and Urns, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Cabinet, Console Table and Urns

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Edgar Degas

Landscape

Edgar Degas · 1892

Public domainThe Met
Architect's Table, by David Roentgen, German, 1743–1807

Architect's Table

David Roentgen, German, 1743–1807 · ca. 1780–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Vices Theme, with Large Goblet

Vices Theme, with Large Goblet

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th 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. 25921 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 3882386 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-28 05:01 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.