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 “Relief from couch” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Couch
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Relief from couch
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Panel for a cabinet door
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Frontal from the base of a funerary couch with Sogdian musicians and dancers and Buddhist divinities
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Couch
Artist not stated in the record · 1851–56

Day Couch for Mrs. Allen's Boudoir, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, Kansas
Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1917

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Wall pocket
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty
Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1769

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Stomacher
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th or early 18th century

Relief
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century (?)

Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios
Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949 · 2002; reupholstered 2015

Relief
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th century

Sharecropping contract between Amos G. Robinson and Berry Couch
Amos G. Robinson, American, born 1831 · February 1, 1866

Funerary relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1795-1800

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Waistcoat front
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725–35
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. 9943 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 416289 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-27 21:58 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.