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 “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

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.
Cushion Cover for Chair

Cushion Cover for Chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios, by Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949

Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios

Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949 · 2002; reupholstered 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cushion Cover for Chair Pad

Cushion Cover for Chair Pad

Artist not stated in the record

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
Cushion Cover for Chair Pad

Cushion Cover for Chair Pad

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Wicker armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Wicker armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Easy chair

Easy chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1715–30

Public domainThe Met
Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans, by Unidentified

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Unidentified · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yastik Cushion Cover

Yastik Cushion Cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

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
Armchair, by Gustave Herter

Armchair

Gustave Herter · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
side chair, by Charles Rohlfs, 1853–1936

side chair

Charles Rohlfs, 1853–1936 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turkey-work chair

Turkey-work chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1700

Public domainThe Met
Design for the rest of a chair or a cushion, to be executed in tapestry, by Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885

Design for the rest of a chair or a cushion, to be executed in tapestry

Alphonse de Neuville, French, 1835 - 1885 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair

Side Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1660–90

Public domainThe Met
Mission style rocking chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Mission style rocking chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upholstered armchair, originally from a set of eight, from Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland (one of a pair), by Thomas Roberts

Upholstered armchair, originally from a set of eight, from Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland (one of a pair)

Thomas Roberts · ca. 1689

Public domainThe Met
Cushion cover

Cushion cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm Panel From a Ceremonial Chair of Thutmose IV

Arm Panel From a Ceremonial Chair of Thutmose IV

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wicker chair from Shearer Cottage, by Unidentified

Wicker chair from Shearer Cottage

Unidentified · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola)

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola)

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

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Side Chairs with Seat Cushions

Pair of Side Chairs with Seat Cushions

Artist not stated in the record · 1805–15

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. 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.