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. 12 shown for “corner reading chair” — 24 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 02:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Corner chair
Joseph Armitt · 1740–47

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Card table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1767

Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud
Georges Jacob · 1788

The Silver Tureen
Jean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1728–30

Side Chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Arm Panel From a Ceremonial Chair of Thutmose IV
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)
Jacques Gondouin · 1779

Side chair
Herter Brothers · 1879

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1774, with later additions
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. 860 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 02:28 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.