OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
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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. 21 shown for “Design for a Chaise Lounge” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:07 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.
Design for Chaise Lounge, by Anonymous, French, 19th century

Design for Chaise Lounge

Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chaise Lounge

Design for a Chaise Lounge

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaise (unnumbered)

Chaise (unnumbered)

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–74

Public domainThe Met
Profil et Elévation d'une Voyelle [et] Duchesse brisée ou Chaise longue, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Profil et Elévation d'une Voyelle [et] Duchesse brisée ou Chaise longue

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaise (unnumbered)

Chaise (unnumbered)

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–74

Public domainThe Met
Profil et Elévation d'une Voyelle [et] Duchesse brisée ou Chaise longue, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Profil et Elévation d'une Voyelle [et] Duchesse brisée ou Chaise longue

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Duncan Phyfe

Side Chair

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
Print

Print

Artist not stated in the record · About 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair), by Georges Jacob

Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair)

Georges Jacob · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chaise Longue and a Sofa, by Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770

Design for a Chaise Longue and a Sofa

Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770 · 1849–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste, by George Smith

A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste

George Smith · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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
Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Chaise quarrée Ornée de Sculptures [et] Chaise Ovale Ornée de Sculptures

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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
Carte-de-visite of a young girl in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a young girl in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

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
Fauteuils et Chaises à Rouleaux, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Fauteuils et Chaises à Rouleaux

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
CHAISE DE POSTE, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

CHAISE DE POSTE

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaises à draperies / Fauteuils à draperies, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Chaises à draperies / Fauteuils à draperies

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaise à Cabriolet [et] Boudoir, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Chaise à Cabriolet [et] Boudoir

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

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. 41 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2092309 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-05 01:07 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.

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Elsewhere in the catalogue
Section 01Character index9 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.