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 (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:41 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 (one of a pair)
Claude Chevigny · ca. 1768–70

Rolling Armchair
Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867 · 1860–67

Gothic Windsor armchair (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760s

Pair of Armchairs
John Henry Belter, American, b. Germany, 1804 – 1863 · design: 1850; Crest decoration design: 1849

Armchair
John Jelliff · 1868–70
Rolling Armchair
Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867 · 1860–67

Armchair (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Armchair (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Armchair
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Armchair (Bergère) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Louis Delanois · ca. 1770

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

Armchair (Bergère) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Louis Delanois · ca. 1770

Chairs
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1800

Armchair
Herter Brothers · ca. 1875

Sketch of Man Seated in Armchair
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1878

Armchair
Duncan Phyfe · 1830–35

Sheffield armchair
Stephen Webb, English, active 1870 – 1885 · 1875–80

Armchair
Gustave Herter · ca. 1855

Mission style armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Armchair
Duncan Phyfe · 1830–35

Design for an Armchair
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

Armchair (one of a pair)
Claude Chevigny · ca. 1768–70

Bentwood armchair from a church in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th century
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. 4435 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. 3969159 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-05 08:41 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.