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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. 20 shown for “Glaive of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, later Emperor Ferdinand II (1578–1637)” — 58 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:49 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
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.
Glaive of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, later Emperor Ferdinand II (1578–1637)

Glaive of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, later Emperor Ferdinand II (1578–1637)

Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1617

Public domainThe Met
Certificate of Authorization for the Title of "Von" for Johann Ferdinand Richter, by Franz Mayer, Austrian, active 1700s

Certificate of Authorization for the Title of "Von" for Johann Ferdinand Richter

Franz Mayer, Austrian, active 1700s · April 7, 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glaive of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, later Emperor Ferdinand II (1578–1637)

Glaive of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, later Emperor Ferdinand II (1578–1637)

Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1617

Public domainThe Met
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Artist not stated in the record · 1531

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halberd of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (1578–1637, Emperor from 1619)

Halberd of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (1578–1637, Emperor from 1619)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1598

Public domainThe Met
Design for the coat of arms of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Design for the coat of arms of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celestial globe with clockwork, by Gerhard Emmoser

Celestial globe with clockwork

Gerhard Emmoser · 1579

Public domainThe Met
Design for the coat of arms of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Design for the coat of arms of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Orpheus Cup, by Jan Vermeyen

The Orpheus Cup

Jan Vermeyen · 1641–42, the jeweled elements on the lid in the form of animals, amorini holding bow and quiver, and the statuettes of Orpheus and Diana, Prague, ca.1600

Public domainThe Met
Bedroom of King Pedro IV of Portugal (Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil), Palace of Queluz, by Ferdinand le Feubure, German, 1815 – 1898

Bedroom of King Pedro IV of Portugal (Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil), Palace of Queluz

Ferdinand le Feubure, German, 1815 – 1898 · 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portions of a Boy's Costume Armor, by Hans Seusenhofer

Portions of a Boy's Costume Armor

Hans Seusenhofer · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Postal announcement

Postal announcement

Artist not stated in the record · 1637

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Franchise, apothecary

Franchise, apothecary

Artist not stated in the record · 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares, by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo

Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Frederich Augustus Ferdinand Pettrich, by Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872

Mrs. Frederich Augustus Ferdinand Pettrich

Ferdinand Pettrich, born Dresden, Germany 1798-died Rome, Italy 1872 · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left Tasset (Thigh Defense) from a Boy's Costume Armor, by Hans Seusenhofer

Left Tasset (Thigh Defense) from a Boy's Costume Armor

Hans Seusenhofer · ca. 1532

Public domainThe Met
Rombertus Dodonaeus Mechlini

Rombertus Dodonaeus Mechlini

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couse of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand III of Austria (1578–1637)

Couse of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand III of Austria (1578–1637)

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1615

Public domainThe Met
Der aller durchleuchtigisten und grosmächtigen Kayser ... Königen ... Herren vom Adel ... Bildtnussen und kurtz Beschreibungen ihrer so wol in Fridts- als Kriegszzeiten verrichten fürnembsten Thaten und Handlungen : deren Waffen und Rüstungen ... auss allen Landen der Welt ... in dem Schloss Ombrass ... zu ewiger Gedächtnuss auffbehalten werden ..., by Jacob Schrenck von Nozing

Der aller durchleuchtigisten und grosmächtigen Kayser ... Königen ... Herren vom Adel ... Bildtnussen und kurtz Beschreibungen ihrer so wol in Fridts- als Kriegszzeiten verrichten fürnembsten Thaten und Handlungen : deren Waffen und Rüstungen ... auss allen Landen der Welt ... in dem Schloss Ombrass ... zu ewiger Gedächtnuss auffbehalten werden ...

Jacob Schrenck von Nozing · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Gauntlet for the Left Hand, by Jörg Sigman

Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Jörg Sigman · ca. 1557

Public domainThe Met
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 3007771 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 07:49 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.