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 “Armchair (fauteuil)” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:37 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 (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
Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Unknown

Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Unknown · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine), by Jacques Gondouin

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Jacques Gondouin · 1779

Public domainThe Met
Fauteuil Oval en Cabriolet [et] Profil du Fauteuil en Cabriolet, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Fauteuil Oval en Cabriolet [et] Profil du Fauteuil en Cabriolet

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by Adam Hains

Armchair

Adam Hains · 1792–97

Public domainThe Met
Fauteuil Oval en Cabriolet, Gondole ou Fauteuil de Bureau, [et] Profil du Feuteuil en Cabriolet, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Fauteuil Oval en Cabriolet, Gondole ou Fauteuil de Bureau, [et] Profil du Feuteuil en Cabriolet

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair

Armchair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Fauteuil Antique avec Ornement, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Fauteuil Antique avec Ornement

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by Duncan Phyfe

Armchair

Duncan Phyfe · 1830–35

Public domainThe Met
Bergere carrée et Fauteuil a la Reine carré, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Bergere carrée et Fauteuil a la Reine carré

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by Duncan Phyfe

Armchair

Duncan Phyfe · 1830–35

Public domainThe Met
Détails en grand de la Sculpture du Fauteuil A, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Détails en grand de la Sculpture du Fauteuil A

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by Georges Jacob

Armchair

Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Fauteuil Siamois, "Collection de Sieges," no. 60, in La Garde-Meuble (The Storehouse), by Désiré Guilmard, French, 1810–1885

Fauteuil Siamois, "Collection de Sieges," no. 60, in La Garde-Meuble (The Storehouse)

Désiré Guilmard, French, 1810–1885 · 1839–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil), by Nicolas Heurtaut

Armchair (fauteuil)

Nicolas Heurtaut · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Dessin de Fauteuils Antiques, et Nouveaux, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Dessin de Fauteuils Antiques, et Nouveaux

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil)

Armchair (fauteuil)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Menuiserie du Fauteuil A, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Menuiserie du Fauteuil A

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil)

Armchair (fauteuil)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Regence style caned fauteuil

Regence style caned fauteuil

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil)

Armchair (fauteuil)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fauteuil Orné de Sculpture, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Fauteuil Orné de Sculpture

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil)

Armchair (fauteuil)

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 18th century

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
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. 50 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 325 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-29 02:37 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.