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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Glaive of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, later Emperor Ferdinand II (1578–1637)
Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1617

Certificate of Authorization for the Title of "Von" for Johann Ferdinand Richter
Franz Mayer, Austrian, active 1700s · April 7, 1785

Glaive of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, later Emperor Ferdinand II (1578–1637)
Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1617

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Artist not stated in the record · 1531

Halberd of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (1578–1637, Emperor from 1619)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1598

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

Celestial globe with clockwork
Gerhard Emmoser · 1579

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

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

Bedroom of King Pedro IV of Portugal (Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil), Palace of Queluz
Ferdinand le Feubure, German, 1815 – 1898 · 1850

Portions of a Boy's Costume Armor
Hans Seusenhofer · 1532

Postal announcement
Artist not stated in the record · 1637

Franchise, apothecary
Artist not stated in the record · 1791

Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later

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

Left Tasset (Thigh Defense) from a Boy's Costume Armor
Hans Seusenhofer · ca. 1532

Rombertus Dodonaeus Mechlini
Artist not stated in the record

Couse of the Bodyguard of Archduke Ferdinand III of Austria (1578–1637)
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1615

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

Gauntlet for the Left Hand
Jörg Sigman · ca. 1557
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.