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. 20 shown for “Three-legged Armchair” — 34 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:52 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.
Three-legged Armchair

Three-legged Armchair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Three Armchair Designs, by Aubert Henri Joseph Parent, French, 1753 - 1835

Three Armchair Designs

Aubert Henri Joseph Parent, French, 1753 - 1835 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Mission style armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Mission style armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Armchair, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Armchair

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turned armchair

Turned armchair

Artist not stated in the record · 1665–90

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Sofa, Chairs, and Vanity Table

Designs for a Sofa, Chairs, and Vanity Table

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair with the cipher of James II and Mary of Modena

Armchair with the cipher of James II and Mary of Modena

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1685–88

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of William Naylor Buckner Jr.

Photographic postcard of William Naylor Buckner Jr.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Burgermeister

Burgermeister

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Sumner

Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Sumner

Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

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

Public domainThe Met
Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga)

Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480–1500

Public domainThe Met
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
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. 35 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 03:52 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.