OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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. 16 shown for “Coffin of Ahmose” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:45 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Coffin of Ahmose

Coffin of Ahmose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Unidentified Artist

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin

Coffin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Ahmose I

Head of Ahmose I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Broadbent and Phillips, active c. 1857 - 1881 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin of Khnumnakht

Coffin of Khnumnakht

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lucretia Coffin Mott, by Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Frederick Gutekunst, 25 Sep 1831 - 27 Apr 1917 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Human remains from the coffin of Ahmose

Human remains from the coffin of Ahmose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Rishi coffin of Puhorsenbu

Rishi coffin of Puhorsenbu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffin of Ameny

Coffin of Ameny

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Coffin of Teti

Coffin of Teti

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Shabti and Coffin

Shabti and Coffin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffin

Coffin

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Public domainThe Met
Scarab Inscribed for Queen Ahmose

Scarab Inscribed for Queen Ahmose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1491 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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. 1104 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2858512 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 07:45 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.