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. 14 shown for “Cane couch” — 42 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cane couch
Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1710

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th century

Trade Card of Samuel Spencer, Cain Chairs, at the Golden Chair in Aldermanbury
Samuel Spencer · ca. 1700–1720

Isaac Davis and William Hickling Prescott
Southworth & Hawes, active 1843 - 1862 · c. 1850

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Sharecropping contract between Amos G. Robinson and Berry Couch
Amos G. Robinson, American, born 1831 · February 1, 1866

Badge
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Day Couch for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas
Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1917

Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios
Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949 · 2002; reupholstered 2015

Chasuble
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Nude Study, Classic on a Couch
George Bellows, born Columbus, OH 1882-died New York City 1925 · 1924

Darius N. Couch
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Darius N. Couch
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5047 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-27 03:13 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.