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. 10 shown for “Pair of Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses)” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 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.

Pair of Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550 to 1575

Pair of Greaves (lower leg defenses)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1575

Left Leg Defense (Greave)
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Pair of Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450, with later restorations

Cuirass (Armor for the Torso and Hips) and Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses)
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 18th–early 19th century

Defense for the Lower Right Leg (Greave)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Pair of bronze greaves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

Helmet of the Corinthian Type and Pair of Greaves
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
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. 239 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 2026-08-26 20:53 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.