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 “Cushion Cover for Chair” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cushion Cover for Chair
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios
Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949 · 2002; reupholstered 2015

Cushion Cover for Chair Pad
Artist not stated in the record

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

Cushion Cover for Chair Pad
Artist not stated in the record

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

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

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

Yastik Cushion Cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

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

Armchair
Gustave Herter · ca. 1855

side chair
Charles Rohlfs, 1853–1936 · 1901

Turkey-work chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1700

Design for the rest of a chair or a cushion, to be executed in tapestry
Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885 · ca. 1880

Side Chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1660–90

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

Upholstered armchair, originally from a set of eight, from Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland (one of a pair)
Thomas Roberts · ca. 1689

Cushion cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Arm Panel From a Ceremonial Chair of Thutmose IV
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Wicker chair from Shearer Cottage
Unidentified · mid 20th century

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair: with earlier parts)

Pair of Side Chairs with Seat Cushions
Artist not stated in the record · 1805–15
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. 354 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 460155 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 09:22 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.