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 “Lamellar Shoulder Defenses” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 14:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Lamellar Shoulder Defenses
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–16th century
Portions of a Costume Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
Top Lames of Vambraces (Arm Defenses) from a Costume Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
Left Shoulder Defense (Pauldron)
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
Reinforcing Breastplate, Shoulder Defense, and Buffe (Chin Defense)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550 to 1575
Shoulder Guards (Sode)
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Backplate and Hoguine (Rump Defense) from a Costume Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
Armor of the Dukes of Alba
Lucio Piccinino · ca. 1575–85
Left Pauldron (Shoulder Defense) from a Boy's Costume Armor
Hans Seusenhofer · ca. 1532
Pair of Tournament Pauldrons (Shoulder Defenses)
Lorenz Helmschmid · ca. 1500
Left Arm Defense (Vambrace)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1380–1400
Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915
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. 107 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 14:08 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.