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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armchair (chaise à bras)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th or 16th century (textiles) and 16th century, second half (woodwork)

Chaises à draperies / Fauteuils à draperies
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

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

Fauteuils et Chaises à Rouleaux
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

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)

Design for a Chaise Lounge
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

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)

Design for a Chaise Longue and a Sofa
Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770 · 1849–66

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85
![Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-974E60ABCE6C2-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Rolling Armchair
Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867 · 1860–67
![Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-6830E2C205682-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Chaise longue
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Costume worn by Cindy Herron in "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" video
Danny Flynn · 1992

Armchair
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Armchair with slip seat
John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857 · ca. 1820

Costume worn by Terry Ellis in "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" video
Danny Flynn · 1992
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.