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. 17 shown for “Left Arm Defense (Vambrace)” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Left Arm Defense (Vambrace)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1380–1400
American Defense Service Medal and ribbon bar awarded to George Francis Bland
Joseph A. Kiselewski, American, 1901 - 1988 · ca. 1941
Left Arm Defense (Vambrace) with Elbow Reinforce
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60
Lapel pin for 48th Infantry Regiment Unit worn by General Colin L. Powell
United States Army, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1960-1962
Portions of a Costume Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
"U.S." Army insignia pin worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993
Pair of Vambraces (Arm Defenses) from a Costume Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
Pin for 48th Infantry Dragoons worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1958-1960
Left Vambrace (Arm Defense)
Anton Peffenhauser · ca. 1580
Pin for 48th Infantry Dragoons worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993
Armor for Man and Horse Presumably Made for Baron Pankraz von Freyberg (1508–1565)
Wolfgang Grosschedel · man's armor, ca. 1535–40; horse armor, dated 1554; saddle steels, later restorations
Defense for the Lower Left Forearm (Vambrace)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1425
Upper Right Arm Defense (Vambrace) and Elbow Defense (Couter)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–60
Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later
Top Lames of Vambraces (Arm Defenses) from a Costume Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
Left Shoulder Defense (Pauldron)
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525
Field Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525; left arm defense, 19th century; rondels, 1923
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. 185 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. 127465 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:03 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.