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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Three-legged Armchair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Three Armchair Designs
Aubert Henri Joseph Parent, French, 1753 - 1835 · 1865

Armchair (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–90

Mission style armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710

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

Turned armchair
Artist not stated in the record · 1665–90

Designs for a Sofa, Chairs, and Vanity Table
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Armchair with the cipher of James II and Mary of Modena
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1685–88

Photographic postcard of William Naylor Buckner Jr.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Burgermeister
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Armchair (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–90

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Armchair (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–90

Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Sumner
Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

Armchair (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–90

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480–1500

Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert · 1759
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.