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 Pad” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 05:31 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 Pad

Cushion Cover for Chair Pad

Artist not stated in the record

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
Easy chair

Easy chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1715–30

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
Turkey-work chair

Turkey-work chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1700

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
Side Chair

Side Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1660–90

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
Armchair, by Beauvais

Armchair

Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; chair frame second half 19th century

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
Armchair, by Beauvais

Armchair

Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; chair frame second half 19th century

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
Armchair, by Beauvais

Armchair

Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; chair frame second half 19th century

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

Pulpit chair from Saint Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

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

Cushion Cover for Chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chair from Metropolitan AME

Chair from Metropolitan AME

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920 - 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled

Untitled

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1841

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
Armchair, by Beauvais

Armchair

Beauvais · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; chair frame second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bench with seat cushion from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Bench with seat cushion from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (Chaise à la reine) (part of a set), by Jean Baptiste Boulard

Side chair (Chaise à la reine) (part of a set)

Jean Baptiste Boulard · 1786–87

Public domainThe Met
Chair from Metropolitan AME

Chair from Metropolitan AME

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920-1945

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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 464267 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 05:31 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.