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. 24 shown for “Coif” — 41 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Coif
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

Woman's coif
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter 16th century

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1625

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter 16th century

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century or early 17th century

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Louise of Savoy, Countess of Angoulême (1476–ca. 1531)
Artist not stated in the record · cast ca. 1505

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Coif (opened flat)
Artist not stated in the record · 1575–1600

Coif
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Breton Woman's Coif
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–1910

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1760

Oorijzer decorative coif frame
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Marriage certificate with tintypes of Augustus L. Johnson and Malinda Murphy
Artist not stated in the record · July 9, 1874

Portrait of the Boy Eutyches
Artist not stated in the record · 100–150 CE

Portrait of a New York Lady
George Linen, born Greenlaw, Scotland 1802-died New York City 1888 · ca. 1840

Head of a ruler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2000 BCE

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

Bust of "Baron" Schmiedel
Meissen Manufactory · 1739

Allegorical Figures of the "Four Continents"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th 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. 56 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:45 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.