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 “Glaive, probably of August I of Saxony (reigned 1553–86)” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Glaive, probably of August I of Saxony (reigned 1553–86)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560
Priming Flask Bearing the Monograms and Arms of the Prince-Elector August I of Saxony (reigned 1553–86) and Anna of Denmark (reigned 1553–85)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82
Columbine and Pantalone
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1736
Foot-Combat Armor of Prince-Elector Christian I of Saxony (reigned 1586–91)
Anton Peffenhauser · 1591
Glaive of Emperor Rudolf II (reigned 1576–1612)
Hans Stromair · dated 1577
Partisan of Johann Georg I of Saxony (reigned 1611–56)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625
Halberd of Christian I of Saxony (reigned 1586–91)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590
Wheellock Gun Made for the Bodyguard of the Prince-Elector of Saxony
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1589
Priming Flask Bearing the Monograms and Arms of the Prince-Elector August I of Saxony (reigned 1553–86) and Anna of Denmark (reigned 1553–85)
Master Thomas der Schwertfeger (possibly Thomas Rucker) · ca. 1575
Brighella on a pedestal
Meissen Manufactory · 1710–13
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527
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. 114 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2958158 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 04:05 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.