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. 12 shown for “Partisan of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:02 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.

Partisan of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660

Halberd of the Swiss Guard of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1680

Halberd of the Swiss Guard of Johann Georg II of Saxony (reigned 1656–80)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1680

Partisan of Johann Georg I of Saxony (reigned 1611–56)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625

Hunting Sword
Johann Georg Klett · ca. 1750

Partisan of the Swiss Guard of Friedrich August of Saxony (reigned 1694–1733)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Set of hunting implements (Trousse)
Jakob Watzky · ca. 1650

Glaive of Emperor Rudolf II (reigned 1576–1612)
Hans Stromair · dated 1577

Teapot with equestrian scene
Meissen Manufactory · 1722–23

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Partisan Carried by the Bodyguard of Louis XIV (1638–1715, reigned from 1643)
Jean Berain · ca. 1679

Wig cabinet (cabinet de coiffure)
Johann Daniel Sommer II · ca. 1685
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. 33 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 22:02 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.