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. 17 shown for “Composite Armor” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Composite Armor
Jörg Wagner · comprehensively ca. 1485–95

Planometric View of Mazachebir
Artist not stated in the record · 1610–35

Burgonet with Falling Buffe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

Composite Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1485 and later, composed in the early 20th century

La Franche Comté Conquise pour la Seconde Fois (Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1681–84

Horse Armor Probably Made for Count Antonio IV Collalto (1548–1620)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–90 and later

Cartoon for Printed Cotton: Les Quatre Elements
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

Unfinished cartoon for cotton printing: Unidentified subject
B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820
![Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-C707DAAC60D62-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements]
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

Jousting Armor
Daniel Tachaux · ca. 1500 and later
![Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-53A1C5EC2BCF2-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements]
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810–20

Armor for the Joust of Peace
Daniel Tachaux · ca. 1500 and later

Cantle Plate (Rear Saddle Plate) From a Horse Armor Probably Made for Count Antonio IV Collalto (1548–1620)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–90

Philip IV (1605–1665) in Parade Armor
Gaspar de Crayer · ca. 1628

Portrait of a Man in Armor with Two Pages
Paris Bordon

Armet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490, 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. 164 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. 6050 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 03:45 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.