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. 14 shown for “Tournament Helm (Kolbenturnierhelm)” — 54 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tournament Helm (Kolbenturnierhelm)
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

The Tournament
John Sartain, American, 1808–1897 · 1847

Tournament Helm (Kolbenturnierhelm)
Artist not stated in the record · 1510

Souvenir Program for the Southern Tennis Association Annual Tournament
Southern Tennis Association, American, founded 1881 · August 1933

Foot-Combat Helm of Sir Giles Capel (1485–1556)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

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

Jousting Helm
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–1500

Helm for Foot Combat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1520

Tournament Helm
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510–20

Tournament Helm
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420–30

Foot-Combat Helm
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Front Half of a Tournament Helm
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510–20

Armor for the Tilt
Anton Peffenhauser · ca. 1580

Armor for the Tilt
Anton Peffenhauser · ca. 1580
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. 14 matched · 14 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. 1839 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 04:02 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.