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. 23 shown for “Side chair (set of four)” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Side chair (set of four)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

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

Side chair (set of four)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

side chair
Charles Rohlfs, 1853–1936 · 1901

Side chair (set of four)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Side chair
Samuel Pratt · 1844

Side chair (set of four)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Side Chair
John Finlay · 1815–20

Side Chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–60

Side Chair
Samuel McIntire · 1794–99

Side chair
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Queen Anne style chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Side chair
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Side chair (voyeuse)
Sulpice Brizard · 1780–90

Side chair
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1830
Chairs
M. Delaporte, French · 1780–90
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. 957 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2880694 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 2026-09-02 20:43 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.