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. 17 shown for “Armchair (chaise à bras)” — 45 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:23 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.
Armchair (chaise à bras)

Armchair (chaise à bras)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th or 16th century (textiles) and 16th century, second half (woodwork)

Public domainThe Met
Chaises à draperies / Fauteuils à draperies, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Chaises à draperies / Fauteuils à draperies

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (chaise à bras)

Armchair (chaise à bras)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th or 16th century (textiles) and 16th century, second half (woodwork)

Public domainThe Met
Fauteuils et Chaises à Rouleaux, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Fauteuils et Chaises à Rouleaux

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (chaise à bras, pair with 1975.1.2001)

Armchair (chaise à bras, pair with 1975.1.2001)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century, second half (woodwork), 16th or 17th century (textiles)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chaise Lounge

Design for a Chaise Lounge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (chaise à bras, pair with 1975.1.2000)

Armchair (chaise à bras, pair with 1975.1.2000)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century, second half (woodwork), 16th or 17th century (textiles)

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chaise Longue and a Sofa, by Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770

Design for a Chaise Longue and a Sofa

Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770 · 1849–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolling Armchair, by Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867

Rolling Armchair

Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867 · 1860–67

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaise longue

Chaise longue

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume worn by Cindy Herron in "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" video, by Danny Flynn

Costume worn by Cindy Herron in "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" video

Danny Flynn · 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair

Armchair

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair with slip seat, by John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857

Armchair with slip seat

John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Costume worn by Terry Ellis in "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" video, by Danny Flynn

Costume worn by Terry Ellis in "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" video

Danny Flynn · 1992

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1765809 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 23:23 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.