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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chair back carved in relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Chairs
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

Chair
Herter Brothers · 1877–79

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century

Chair
Christopher Dresser · 1870

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

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

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Chair backs
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Banister-back chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1715–35
Chair
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Side Chair
Benjamin Henry Latrobe · ca. 1808

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

Side chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–90

Chair
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Side Chair
Samuel McIntire · 1794–99

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

Side chair (voyeuse)
Sulpice Brizard · 1780–90

Side chair (one of a pair)
Jean-Baptiste III Lelarge · ca. 1775–80

Burgermeister
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 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. 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.