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 “Gauntlet for the Left Hand” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gauntlet for the Left Hand
Jörg Sigman · ca. 1557

Life Cast of Left Forearm and Hand (fragment, study for "The Greek Slave")
Studio of Hiram Powers, founded Florence, Italy 1837-closed 1873 · ca. 1843

Mitten Gauntlet for the Left Hand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Studies for a Kneeling Monk
Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714 · 1775–1800

Gauntlet for the Left Hand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60

Sketch for Portrait of a Standing Woman
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1879

Gauntlet for the Left Hand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430–40

Mercy's Hand and Arm, Study for "Mercy's Dream"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1857

German Gothic Gauntlet for the Left Hand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

Two Sketches of a Left Hand
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1879

Gauntlet for the Left Hand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60

Two Martyrs
Giovanni Gerolama Boniforte, Italian · 1641

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586

Sketch of Julia Wells for "My Cousin in Blue"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · May 8, 1878

Left Gauntlet of Henry (1594–1612), Prince of Wales
Jacob Halder · ca. 1608

Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."
Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735 · 1726

Gauntlet for the Right Hand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60

The Atlantic, Nude Study for "The Marriage of the Atlantic and Pacific," Mural in the Senate Chamber in the Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, WI
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1915

Gauntlet for the Right Hand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420

Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1575

Gauntlet for the Right Hand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430–40

Study of Hands for Elderly Woman in "Communion of the Sick"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1844–45

Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

Study of Left Hand for "Communion of the Sick"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1844–45
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. 4533 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. 1261698 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-27 14:53 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.