OpenTwo 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 “Defense for the Lower Left Forearm (Vambrace)” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:09 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.
Defense for the Lower Left Forearm (Vambrace)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1425
Portions of a Costume Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
Armor for Man and Horse Presumably Made for Baron Pankraz von Freyberg (1508–1565)
Wolfgang Grosschedel · man's armor, ca. 1535–40; horse armor, dated 1554; saddle steels, later restorations
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555
Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later
Left Arm Defense (Vambrace) with Elbow Reinforce
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60
Pair of Vambraces (Arm Defenses) from a Costume Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
Armor from a Small Garniture for Field and Tournament
Kunz Lochner · dated 1548, with later restorations
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586
Armor for the Tilt
Anton Peffenhauser · ca. 1580
Armor for Field and Tilt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–75
Left Leg Defense (Greave)
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century
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. 224 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 03:09 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.