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. 20 shown for “Chair of Reniseneb” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:22 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 of Reniseneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450 BCE

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

Chair
Herter Brothers · 1877–79

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

Chair
Herter Brothers · 1867–69

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Chair
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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

Chair
Christopher Dresser · 1870

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

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

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

Statuette of Reniseneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1650 B.C.

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans
Unidentified · 20th century
Stela of Reniseneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–1763 B.C.

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

Game of Hounds and Jackals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.

Rocking Chair
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1820–50

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

Mask of Reniseneb
Artist not stated in the record · 1802 – 1650 BCE
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. 2726 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. 2859702 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 03:22 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.