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. 12 shown for “Folding bed chair (porter's chair)” — 42 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:45 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.
Folding bed chair (porter's chair)

Folding bed chair (porter's chair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Dutch mahogany metamorphic wing-backed folding bed chair

Dutch mahogany metamorphic wing-backed folding bed chair

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Peasant Family, by Antoine Le Nain

A Peasant Family

Antoine Le Nain · ca. 1640–48

Public domainThe Met
David Dixon Porter, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

David Dixon Porter

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · c. 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Chairs, a Sofa, and a Bed, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791

Designs for Chairs, a Sofa, and a Bed

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714–1791 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patent model for folding chair

Patent model for folding chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Sitting Room, Cottage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia, by Eduard Petrovich Hau, Estonian, 1807 – 1888

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Sitting Room, Cottage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

Eduard Petrovich Hau, Estonian, 1807 – 1888 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome, by Joseph-Eugène Lacroix, French, 1814 - 1873

A Studio in the Villa Medici, Rome

Joseph-Eugène Lacroix, French, 1814 - 1873 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding chair, by Edward W. Vaill, American, active 1861–92

Folding chair

Edward W. Vaill, American, active 1861–92 · 1863–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Designs for Furniture (Beds, Chairs, Sofas, Stools) and Waistcoats, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Album of Designs for Furniture (Beds, Chairs, Sofas, Stools) and Waistcoats

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paravent de quatre Pieds huit Pouces de haut [et] Chaise courante, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Paravent de quatre Pieds huit Pouces de haut [et] Chaise courante

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paravent de quatre Pieds huit Pouces de haut, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Paravent de quatre Pieds huit Pouces de haut

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

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 31984 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 07:45 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.