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 “Reading Chair” — 64 records examined, 16 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.
Reading chair

Reading chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
corner reading chair

corner reading chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arm Panel From a Ceremonial Chair of Thutmose IV

Arm Panel From a Ceremonial Chair of Thutmose IV

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Reading Chair

Reading Chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine), by Jacques Gondouin

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Jacques Gondouin · 1779

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (Portrait of Aged Woman in Wicker Chair), by Unidentified

Untitled (Portrait of Aged Woman in Wicker Chair)

Unidentified · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by Thomas Affleck

Armchair

Thomas Affleck · ca. 1766

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Man, by James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869

Unidentified Man

James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three-legged chair

Three-legged chair

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Abby and Silas, by Unidentified

Abby and Silas

Unidentified · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Nobleman Reading

A Nobleman Reading

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–75

Public domainThe Met
Key to Webster Addresses the Senate, by Unidentified Artist

Key to Webster Addresses the Senate

Unidentified Artist · c. 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Gilbert Gaw

Side Chair

Gilbert Gaw · 1796–1806

Public domainThe Met
James Shrigley, by Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887

James Shrigley

Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Woman Reading, study for "Le Pélerinage", by Alphonse Legros

Seated Woman Reading, study for "Le Pélerinage"

Alphonse Legros · 1871

Public domainThe Met
Clerigo desconocido (Unknown Cleric), by Ramon Atiles-Perez, born Ponce, Puerto Rico 1804-died Ponce, Puerto Rico 1875

Clerigo desconocido (Unknown Cleric)

Ramon Atiles-Perez, born Ponce, Puerto Rico 1804-died Ponce, Puerto Rico 1875 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman in Pink Reclining on a Canape, by Theodore Lebrun

Woman in Pink Reclining on a Canape

Theodore Lebrun · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Placing chair, sitting and reading, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Placing chair, sitting and reading

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helluones librorum (Bookworms), by Joshua Kirby Baldrey

Helluones librorum (Bookworms)

Joshua Kirby Baldrey · November 10, 1786

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Man

Unidentified Man

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four Artists seated at a table (Brunet, Potier, Tiercetin [?], Vernet), by Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet

Four Artists seated at a table (Brunet, Potier, Tiercetin [?], Vernet)

Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Portrait Study of Annie A. Brush, Seated in Profile, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Portrait Study of Annie A. Brush, Seated in Profile

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · September 22, 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Englishmen Dining, by Utagawa Yoshitora

Englishmen Dining

Utagawa Yoshitora · 1st month, 1861

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

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. 106 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 35235 matched · 40 examined · 7 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.