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. 11 shown for “M. S. of Nuremberg, Germany” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:11 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.

Cylindrical tankard
M. S. of Nuremberg, Germany · ca. 1720

Armor of Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564)
Kunz Lochner · dated 1549

Architectura Curiosa Nova: Das ist, neue ergotzliche Sinn und Kunstreiche auch nutzliche Bau- und Wasser-Kunst . . .
Georg Andreas Böckler · 1664

Helm for the Joust of Peace (Stechhelm)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Armor from a Small Garniture for Field and Tournament
Kunz Lochner · dated 1548, with later restorations

Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565)
Joachim Deschler · 1553

Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy
Paullus Schiller · ca. 1620–30

Armor for Man and Horse
Kunz Lochner · dated 1548, with later restorations

Neptune Riding a Dolphin
Peter Flötner · ca. 1530

Field Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525; left arm defense, 19th century; rondels, 1923

Tankard
M. Schmid · early 18th 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. 1140 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-09-04 01:11 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.