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 “Plans and Ornaments for an Easy Chair” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:10 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 · 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 · 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
Chair (Sgabello), by Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497)

Chair (Sgabello)

Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

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
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

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

Side Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Designs and Plans for Chairs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs and Plans for Chairs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of an ancestral king

Statuette of an ancestral king

Artist not stated in the record · 380–246 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs and Plans for Chairs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs and Plans for Chairs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Easy Chair

Easy Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

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
Easy Chair

Easy Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Chaire de l’Eglise de St. Nicolas du Chardonet sur le dessein de Mr. Le Brun, by Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716

Chaire de l’Eglise de St. Nicolas du Chardonet sur le dessein de Mr. Le Brun

Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657–1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Designs and Plans for Chairs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs and Plans for Chairs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center Table, by Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company

Center Table

Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · 1870–75

Public domainThe Met
Profil de Lit à Chaire à Prêcher, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Profil de Lit à Chaire à Prêcher

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (piatto): Man Washing the Mouth of an Ass

Dish (piatto): Man Washing the Mouth of an Ass

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–60

Public domainThe Met
Chaire de l’Eglise St Estienne du Mont de Mr. Fremery sur les desseins de Mr. Sarazin, by Martin Frémery, French, active ca. 1650 – ca. 1685

Chaire de l’Eglise St Estienne du Mont de Mr. Fremery sur les desseins de Mr. Sarazin

Martin Frémery, French, active ca. 1650 – ca. 1685 · 1657–1716

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

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

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

Public domainThe Met
Plans, Elévations, et Profils de plusieurs Chaises, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Plans, Elévations, et Profils de plusieurs Chaises

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. 348 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1540873 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-04 04:10 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.