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. 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

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.
Cane couch

Cane couch

Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trade Card of Samuel Spencer, Cain Chairs, at the Golden Chair in Aldermanbury, by Samuel Spencer

Trade Card of Samuel Spencer, Cain Chairs, at the Golden Chair in Aldermanbury

Samuel Spencer · ca. 1700–1720

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Davis and William Hickling Prescott, by Southworth & Hawes, active 1843 - 1862

Isaac Davis and William Hickling Prescott

Southworth & Hawes, active 1843 - 1862 · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sharecropping contract between Amos G. Robinson and Berry Couch, by Amos G. Robinson, American, born 1831

Sharecropping contract between Amos G. Robinson and Berry Couch

Amos G. Robinson, American, born 1831 · February 1, 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Badge

Badge

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Day Couch for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas, by Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959

Day Couch for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas

Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios, by Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949

Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios

Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949 · 2002; reupholstered 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nude Study, Classic on a Couch, by George Bellows, born Columbus, OH 1882-died New York City 1925

Nude Study, Classic on a Couch

George Bellows, born Columbus, OH 1882-died New York City 1925 · 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Darius N. Couch

Darius N. Couch

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Darius N. Couch

Darius N. Couch

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanging

Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 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.