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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-leaf Dining Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1810

Chair leg
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Chair
Herter Brothers · 1877–79

Chair leg
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Chair
Christopher Dresser · 1870

Designs for Chair Frames and Legs
Johann Rumpp, German, active ca. 1760 · 1849–66

Drop-leaf dining table
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1810

Mission style armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Easy chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

Queen Anne style chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

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

Designs for Chairs
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1800

Side Chair
John Finlay · 1815–20

Détails en grand de la Sculpture du Fauteuil A
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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

Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

Side chair
Herter Brothers · 1879
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Tabouret à la Duchesse [...] Gondole à la Dauphine
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

Side Chair
Samuel McIntire · 1794–99

Détails en grand de la Sculpture du Fauteuil A
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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

Bergere à la Turque ornée de Sculpture et de son Profil
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Wingback chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 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. 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.