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 “Writing Table” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:19 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.
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Mechanical Dressing and Writing Tables

Designs for Mechanical Dressing and Writing Tables

Artist not stated in the record · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels

Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Pear-Shaped Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Pear-Shaped Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Table

Writing Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–85

Public domainThe Met
Design for Writing Table, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Writing Table

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table, by Joseph Baumhauer

Writing table

Joseph Baumhauer · ca. 1760–65

Public domainThe Met
Design for Writing Table No. 2 and Lion-Paw Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Writing Table No. 2 and Lion-Paw Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table, by Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix

Writing table

Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Book Shelves at Back, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Book Shelves at Back

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (part of a set), by Joseph Baumhauer

Writing table (part of a set)

Joseph Baumhauer · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Design for Writing Table for Mr. Dorn in Two Views, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Writing Table for Mr. Dorn in Two Views

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Design for Writing Table in the Mission Style with Carved Backboard, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Writing Table in the Mission Style with Carved Backboard

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud, by Georges Jacob

Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud

Georges Jacob · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Tracing of Design for Rectangular Writing Table with Decorated Inlay, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Tracing of Design for Rectangular Writing Table with Decorated Inlay

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grande Galerie carpet no. 38 (Fame and Fortitude), by Savonnerie Manufactory

Grande Galerie carpet no. 38 (Fame and Fortitude)

Savonnerie Manufactory · Delivered between 1668 and 1677

Public domainThe Met
Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Empty Vase Atop, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Empty Vase Atop

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table

Table

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

Public domainThe Met
Tracing of Design for Three-Tiered Writing Table #42018, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Tracing of Design for Three-Tiered Writing Table #42018

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Work and writing table (table en chiffonière), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Work and writing table (table en chiffonière)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Design for Rectangular Writing Table #45962 with Lion-Paw Feet, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Rectangular Writing Table #45962 with Lion-Paw Feet

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1736–52, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Design for Rectangular Writing Table with Sketch of Top View, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Rectangular Writing Table with Sketch of Top View

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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. 255 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. 14808 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 2026-09-04 23:19 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.