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. 21 shown for “Turned armchair” — 64 records examined, 26 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.
Turned armchair

Turned armchair

Artist not stated in the record · 1665–90

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for "Lesson of Charity" and portrait of Peter Richards, Jr., by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketches for "Lesson of Charity" and portrait of Peter Richards, Jr.

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1849

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
"Sussex", by Morris & Co., London, England

"Sussex"

Morris & Co., London, England · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair, with various earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752–1834), by V. Vebert

Portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752–1834)

V. Vebert · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair, with various earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Study of Seated Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day), by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Seated Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair, with earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Armchair

Armchair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair, with earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Shaker no. 7 rocking chair, by Society of Shakers, RM Wagan & Co.

Shaker no. 7 rocking chair

Society of Shakers, RM Wagan & Co. · 1878–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola)

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair: with earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Hitchcock chair

Hitchcock chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud, by Georges Jacob

Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud

Georges Jacob · 1788

Public domainThe Met
armchair, by Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 1863–1882

armchair

Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 1863–1882 · ca. 1870–73

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
Armchair

Armchair

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
wooden chair with needlepoint upholstery

wooden chair with needlepoint upholstery

Artist not stated in the record · 1690–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for Portrait of Charles J. Martin, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study for Portrait of Charles J. Martin

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · December 20, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch for Portrait of a Seated Man, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketch for Portrait of a Seated Man

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1875

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. 64 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 9833 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-05 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.