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. 20 shown for “Easy Chair” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:15 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.
Easy chair

Easy chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1715–30

Public domainThe Met
Plans and Ornaments for an Easy Chair

Plans and Ornaments for an Easy Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Easy chair

Easy chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Plans and Ornaments for an Easy Chair

Plans and Ornaments for an Easy Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Easy chair

Easy chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–40

Public domainThe Met
Plans and Ornaments for an Easy Chair

Plans and Ornaments for an Easy Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Easy Chair

Easy Chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1852

Public domainThe Met
Study for Cartoon, "Editor's Easy Chair", by Thomas Nast, American, b. Germany, 1840–1902

Study for Cartoon, "Editor's Easy Chair"

Thomas Nast, American, b. Germany, 1840–1902 · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Easy Chair

Easy Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
George Washington's Red Wing Chair

George Washington's Red Wing Chair

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Easy chair

Easy chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1755–90

Public domainThe Met
Sphaeralcea parvifolia A. Nelson

Sphaeralcea parvifolia A. Nelson

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 2023

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
James S. Rankin's 1879 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

James S. Rankin's 1879 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York

Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1767

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon azureus Benth. subsp. azureus

Penstemon azureus Benth. subsp. azureus

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair

Side Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Easy Chair

Easy Chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Wentworth House

Wentworth House

Artist not stated in the record · 1695–1700

Public domainThe Met
Easy Chair

Easy Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
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. 54 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. 7139 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 02:15 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.