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. 24 shown for “Upholstery panels for a side chair” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:39 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.
Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of side chairs, by Thomas How

Pair of side chairs

Thomas How · ca. 1724–36

Public domainThe Met
Folding chair, by Edward W. Vaill, American, active 1861–92

Folding chair

Edward W. Vaill, American, active 1861–92 · 1863–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma, by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Public domainThe Met
Upholstered side chair from Mae's Millinery Shop, by Unidentified

Upholstered side chair from Mae's Millinery Shop

Unidentified · 1900-1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Side Chair

Side Chair

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upholstery panels for a side chair

Upholstery panels for a side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Peacock Side Chair, by Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959

Peacock Side Chair

Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1921–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upholstery panels for a side chair

Upholstery panels for a side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Carved side-chair with needlepoint cover upholstery, by Frederick Marschall

Carved side-chair with needlepoint cover upholstery

Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upholstery panels for a side chair

Upholstery panels for a side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Side chair, by John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857

Side chair

John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upholstery panels for a side chair

Upholstery panels for a side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1763–64

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
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Presiding chair used by Reverend Dr. Clay Evans at Fellowship Baptist Church

Presiding chair used by Reverend Dr. Clay Evans at Fellowship Baptist Church

Artist not stated in the record · 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair en cabriolet, by David Roentgen

Armchair en cabriolet

David Roentgen · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Floral brocade jacket and skirt with fringe hem, by Unidentified

Floral brocade jacket and skirt with fringe hem

Unidentified · 1980s-1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk chair (Fauteuil de bureau)

Desk chair (Fauteuil de bureau)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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

Chair

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1785–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (one of a pair), by Josef Danhauser

Side chair (one of a pair)

Josef Danhauser · ca. 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Design for a sedan chair

Design for a sedan chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

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. 1906 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. 2149072 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 00:39 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.