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 “Tea Table” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:55 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.
Round tea table

Round tea table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Design for Tea Table with Brass Railing Along Back of Upper Shelf, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Tea Table with Brass Railing Along Back of Upper Shelf

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Table, by Robert Harrold

Tea Table

Robert Harrold · 1765–75

Public domainThe Met
A Salon in Restoration Taste, by Hilaire Thierry, French, active 1815–1825

A Salon in Restoration Taste

Hilaire Thierry, French, active 1815–1825 · early 1820s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tilt-top tea table

Tilt-top tea table

Artist not stated in the record · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Euryplax nitida

Euryplax nitida

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Tea Table

Square Tea Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Connecticut Clockmaker, by Ralph Earl, born Worcester County, MA 1751-died Bolton, CT 1801

Portrait of a Connecticut Clockmaker

Ralph Earl, born Worcester County, MA 1751-died Bolton, CT 1801 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tilt-top Tea Table

Tilt-top Tea Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Public domainThe Met
Girl in a Wicker Chair, by Irving Ramsey Wiles, American, 1861–1948

Girl in a Wicker Chair

Irving Ramsey Wiles, American, 1861–1948 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
The Cup of Tea, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

The Cup of Tea

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · ca 1854

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

China table

Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Seven piece place setting of stainless steel flatware sold by Salaam

Seven piece place setting of stainless steel flatware sold by Salaam

Artist not stated in the record · 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea, by James Tissot

Tea

James Tissot · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Elbert Hubbard, James Pond and Frances Benjamin Johnston, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 15 Jan 1864 - 16 May 1952

Elbert Hubbard, James Pond and Frances Benjamin Johnston

Frances Benjamin Johnston, 15 Jan 1864 - 16 May 1952 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–95

Public domainThe Met
International Tea Party, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

International Tea Party

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · ca. 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pembroke table

Pembroke table

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1805

Public domainThe Met
Neonotonia wightii (Arn.) J.A. Lackey

Neonotonia wightii (Arn.) J.A. Lackey

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Table

Tea Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–90

Public domainThe Met
Maekawaea tenax (Schindl.) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi

Maekawaea tenax (Schindl.) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Table

Tea Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–90

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. 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.