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. 23 shown for “Chair back carved in relief” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 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.
Chair back carved in relief

Chair back carved in relief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chairs

Chairs

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair, by Herter Brothers

Chair

Herter Brothers · 1877–79

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair, by Christopher Dresser

Chair

Christopher Dresser · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma, by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chair backs

Chair backs

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banister-back chair

Banister-back chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1715–35

Public domainThe Met
Chair

Chair

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Side Chair

Benjamin Henry Latrobe · ca. 1808

Public domainThe Met
Side Chair

Side Chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–90

Public domainThe Met
Chair

Chair

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Samuel McIntire

Side Chair

Samuel McIntire · 1794–99

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (voyeuse), by Sulpice Brizard

Side chair (voyeuse)

Sulpice Brizard · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Side chair (one of a pair), by Jean-Baptiste III Lelarge

Side chair (one of a pair)

Jean-Baptiste III Lelarge · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Burgermeister

Burgermeister

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair (Sgabello), by Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497)

Chair (Sgabello)

Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th 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. 611 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7462686 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 19:21 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.