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. 22 shown for “Halberd of the Bodyguard of Emanuele Filiberto (1528–1580), Duke of Savoy” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Halberd of the Bodyguard of Emanuele Filiberto (1528–1580), Duke of Savoy
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1579

The Great Horse
Artist not stated in the record · 1505

Close Helmet for Foot Combat
the Master of the Castle Mark · ca. 1600–1610

Design for a Cartouche Evoking the Continent of Asia
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Portions of an Armor for Vincenzo Luigi di Capua (d. 1627)
Pompeo della Cesa · ca. 1595

St. Matthew
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1511

Costume Design: A Halberdier for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Children playing with fruit
Francesco Ladatte · ca. 1745–50

Costume Design: A Girl in Fantastical Attire for a Ballet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Children playing with birds
Francesco Ladatte · ca. 1745–50

Saint Matthew and Saint John
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1520

Design for a Wall Tomb
Avanzino Nucci · 1590–1610

The Small Horse
Artist not stated in the record · 1505

Design for the Corner of a Decorated Ceiling
Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli · mid-17th century

Stage Design, Tent of Genghis Khan, for the Ballet "Genghis Khan" by Luigi Henry
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1828

Two Designs for the Decoration of a Circular Frieze or Cornice
Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli · mid-17th century

Halberd
Unidentified · n.d.

Design for an Altar with a Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds and God the Father Above
Giovanni Battista Foggini · 1672–1725

Halberd
Unidentified · n.d.

Portrait of a Man Wearing the Order of the Annunziata of Savoy
French Painter

Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds
Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · 18th century

Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with the Coronation of the Virgin and a Variant for the Decoration
Anonymous, Italian, 17th century · 17th 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. 309 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. 2983292 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 09:37 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.