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 “Collar Plate for a Helmet of Henry III of France (1551–1589)” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:36 UTC · fetched live for this request

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.

Collar Plate for a Helmet of Henry III of France (1551–1589)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met

Henry III

Andre Thevet, c. 1502 - 1590 · 1584

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Side table (commode servante or commode desserte)

Jean Henri Riesener · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met

ECUELLES

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met

Ornamental Trophy Design

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1775–76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Candlesticks, Console Table, and a Trophy

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Monumental vase

Pierre Philippe Thomire · lapidary work: early 19th century; pedestal and mounts: 1819

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Frames and an Incense Burner

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Composed Armor for Man and Horse

Missaglia workshop · ca. 1450–1525 and later

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Andirons and a Mantel

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Helmet (Sallet)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met

Design for a Military Trophy and Two Helmets

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Burgonet

Filippo Negroli · dated 1543

Public domainThe Met

Pot à Oille

Jacques III Roëttiers, French, 1707–84 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met

Design for a Military Trophy and Two Helmets

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Pedestal [for Woman from the French Colonies]

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1861

Public domainThe Met

Designs or Gueridons (Plinths), Console Table, and Cartel Clock Case

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

Public domainThe Met

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Pedestal [Woman of Algiers]

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met

Designs for Candlesticks and a Military Trophy

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

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. 98 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. 3966724 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-03 20:36 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.

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Section 01Character index9 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.