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 “Tea Table” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Round tea table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Design for Tea Table with Brass Railing Along Back of Upper Shelf
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Tea Table
Robert Harrold · 1765–75

A Salon in Restoration Taste
Hilaire Thierry, French, active 1815–1825 · early 1820s

Tilt-top tea table
Artist not stated in the record · 1765

Euryplax nitida
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 1903

Square Tea Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–60

Portrait of a Connecticut Clockmaker
Ralph Earl, born Worcester County, MA 1751-died Bolton, CT 1801 · ca. 1800

Tilt-top Tea Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Girl in a Wicker Chair
Irving Ramsey Wiles, American, 1861–1948 · ca. 1890

Card table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

The Cup of Tea
E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1854

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Seven piece place setting of stainless steel flatware sold by Salaam
Artist not stated in the record · 1972

Tea
James Tissot · 1872

Elbert Hubbard, James Pond and Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Benjamin Johnston, 15 Jan 1864 - 16 May 1952 · 1900

Card table
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–95

International Tea Party
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · ca. 1867

Pembroke table
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

Neonotonia wightii (Arn.) J.A. Lackey
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 2001

Tea Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–90

Maekawaea tenax (Schindl.) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 2001

Tea Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–90
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. 96 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 14082 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 07:55 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.