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. 24 shown for “Chair leg” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:02 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.
Drop-leaf Dining Table

Drop-leaf Dining Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1810

Public domainThe Met
Chair leg

Chair leg

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

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

Chair

Herter Brothers · 1877–79

Public domainThe Met
Chair leg

Chair leg

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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

Chair

Christopher Dresser · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Chair Frames and Legs, by Johann Rumpp, German, active ca. 1760

Designs for Chair Frames and Legs

Johann Rumpp, German, active ca. 1760 · 1849–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-leaf dining table

Drop-leaf dining table

Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1810

Public domainThe Met
Mission style armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Mission style armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Easy chair

Easy chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Queen Anne style chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Queen Anne style chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Revolving Chair, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Revolving Chair

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1840–70

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Chairs, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Chairs

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by John Finlay

Side Chair

John Finlay · 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Détails en grand de la Sculpture du Fauteuil A, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Détails en grand de la Sculpture du Fauteuil A

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1765–90

Public domainThe Met
Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

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

Side chair

Herter Brothers · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Tabouret à la Duchesse [...] Gondole à la Dauphine, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Tabouret à la Duchesse [...] Gondole à la Dauphine

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

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

Side Chair

Samuel McIntire · 1794–99

Public domainThe Met
Détails en grand de la Sculpture du Fauteuil A, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Détails en grand de la Sculpture du Fauteuil A

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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
Bergere à la Turque ornée de Sculpture et de son Profil, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Bergere à la Turque ornée de Sculpture et de son Profil

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair

Chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Wingback chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Wingback chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 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. 346 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 22212 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-08 02:02 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.