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. 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

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.
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios, by Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949

Couch from the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Harpo Studios

Dakota Jackson, American, born 1949 · 2002; reupholstered 2015

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
side chair, by Charles Rohlfs, 1853–1936

side chair

Charles Rohlfs, 1853–1936 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Side chair, by Samuel Pratt

Side chair

Samuel Pratt · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (set of four)

Side chair (set of four)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Duncan Phyfe

Side Chair

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

End table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by John Finlay

Side Chair

John Finlay · 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Side Chair

Side Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Samuel McIntire

Side Chair

Samuel McIntire · 1794–99

Public domainThe Met
Side chair, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Side chair

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Public domainThe Met
Queen Anne style chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Queen Anne style chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Public domainThe Met
Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Duncan Phyfe

Side Chair

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (voyeuse), by Sulpice Brizard

Side chair (voyeuse)

Sulpice Brizard · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Duncan Phyfe

Side Chair

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Chairs, by M. Delaporte, French

Chairs

M. Delaporte, French · 1780–90

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. 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.