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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert · 1759

Designs for Mechanical Dressing and Writing Tables
Artist not stated in the record · 1805

Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels
Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Pear-Shaped Feet
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Writing Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–85

Design for Writing Table
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Writing table
Joseph Baumhauer · ca. 1760–65

Design for Writing Table No. 2 and Lion-Paw Feet
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Writing table
Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · ca. 1760–70

Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Book Shelves at Back
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Writing table (part of a set)
Joseph Baumhauer · ca. 1770

Design for Writing Table for Mr. Dorn in Two Views
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Design for Writing Table in the Mission Style with Carved Backboard
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud
Georges Jacob · 1788

Tracing of Design for Rectangular Writing Table with Decorated Inlay
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Grande Galerie carpet no. 38 (Fame and Fortitude)
Savonnerie Manufactory · Delivered between 1668 and 1677

Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Empty Vase Atop
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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

Tracing of Design for Three-Tiered Writing Table #42018
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Work and writing table (table en chiffonière)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1760

Design for Rectangular Writing Table #45962 with Lion-Paw Feet
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1736–52, with later additions

Design for Rectangular Writing Table with Sketch of Top View
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05
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.