OpenTwo 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 “Chair backs” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:40 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
Herter Brothers · 1877–79
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
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
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century
Spindle-back chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1710
Chair backs
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Banister-back chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1715–35
Bentwood armchair from a church in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th century
Side chair
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19
Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900
Side Chair
Samuel McIntire · 1794–99
Upper part of chair back
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809
Side chair (voyeuse)
Sulpice Brizard · 1780–90
Frame, probably for chair back
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809
Rocking Chair
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1820–50
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century
Easy chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1715–30
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century
Revolving Chair
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1840–70
Panel from a chair back
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Side chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–90
Chairs
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90
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. 672 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 42140 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 21:40 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.